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Catalytic performances of various metal molybdates were tested in the oxidative dehydrogenation of propane to propene with molecular oxygen under an atmospheric pressure. Most of the molybdates tested promoted the selective oxidative conversion of propane to propene and among them cobalt and magnesium molybdates were found highest in the activity and selectivity. It was also found that their catalytic activities were highly sensitive to the catalyst composition, and it turned out that Co0.95MoO x and Mg0.95MoO x catalysts which have slightly excess molybdenum showed the highest activity in the oxidative dehydrogenation of propane. Under the optimized reaction conditions, higher reaction temperatures and lower partial pressures of oxygen, these catalysts gave 60% selectivity to propene at 20% conversion of propane. Since the molybdates having the surface enriched with molybdenum oxide tended to show high activity for the propane oxidation, surface molybdenum oxide clusters supported on metal molybdate matrix seem to be the active sites for the selective oxidative dehydrogenation of propane.
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Yoon, Y.S., Ueda, W. & Moro-oka, Y. Selective conversion of propane to propene by the catalytic oxidative dehydrogenation over cobalt and magnesium molybdates. Top Catal 3, 265–275 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02113853
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