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Acidic cesium salts Cs x H3-xPW12O40 have been prepared by grinding together amounts of H3PW12O40 and porous Cs3PW12O40 compounds in varying stoichiometries. It is shown that this procedure leads to a dispersion of the acid on top of the high surface area Cs3PW12O40 salt (160 m2 g-1), and, subsequently, yields high surface area materials which exhibit a much higher catalytic activity for n-butane isomerisation at 473 K when compared with samples prepared directly by chemical precipitation. This improvement holds particularly true with low Cs content (x < 2).
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Gayraud, PY., Essayem, N. & Védrine, J.C. H3PW12O40 acid dispersed on its Cs salt: improvement of its catalytic properties by mechanical mixture and grinding. Catalysis Letters 56, 35–41 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1019036407802
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1019036407802