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Spray dried VCrO/SiO2 micro-spheroidal catalyst for the ammoxidation of p-chlorotoluene

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Formulation and shaping of heterogeneous catalysts are vital in the successful industrial application. Here micro-sized vanadium chromium composite oxides catalysts with the spherical shape were prepared via spray drying with colloidal silica as a binder material. The physicochemical properties of catalysts with different Cr/V molar ratios were characterized by XRD, XPS, FT-IR, TPR, and particle size distribution analysis. It was revealed that the addition of Cr inhibited the formation of the crystalline phase V2O5 and decreased the reduction temperature of pentavalent vanadium species, and also resulted in the formation of monoclinic CrVO4 and a highly dispersed state of vanadia species. VCrO/SiO2 particles with various Cr/V atomic ratio were studied as catalysts for p-chlorotoluene ammoxidation to p-chlorobenzonitrile, in which the catalyst with Cr/V ratio of 1 exhibited the best catalytic performance. When the Cr/V ratio was less than 1, mixed phases of orthorhombic CrVO4 and monoclinic Cr2V4O13 were formed and resulted in a low catalytic activity. With the increase of Cr/V ratio, the content of monoclinic CrVO4 in the catalysts increased, resulting in the catalytic activity of the catalysts improved. However, too large an amount of Cr led to the formation of highly oxidizing hexagonal-Cr2O3 phase, which reduced the selectivity of the catalytic reaction.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 21172269), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, South-Central Minzu University (Grant No. CZY22010), the Major bidding projects of provincial and ministerial scientific institutions, South-Central Minzu University (Grant No. PTZD22007), and the Opening Project of Key Laboratory of Optolectronic Chemical Materials and Devices of Minstry of Education, Jianghan Univeristy (Grant No. JDGD-202220).

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  2. Key Laboratory of Catalysis and Energy Materials Chemistry of Ministry of Education, Hubei Key Laboratory of Catalysis and Materials Science, South-Central Minzu University, Wuhan, 430074, China

    Yeyin Huang, Wanjun Tang, Lang Sun, Tingcheng Li & Guangyong Xie

  3. Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Chemical Materials and Devices, Ministry of Education, School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Jianghan University, Wuhan, 430056, China

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All authors contributed to the study conception and design. Material preparation, data collection, and analysis were performed by CD and YH. The first draft of the manuscript was written by WT. TL revised the manuscript, and all authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript. GX did project administration, supervised the work, revised, and completed the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Du, C., Huang, Y., Tang, W. et al. Spray dried VCrO/SiO2 micro-spheroidal catalyst for the ammoxidation of p-chlorotoluene. Res Chem Intermed 49, 5361–5374 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11164-023-05148-7

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