Nature Communications (Mar 2018)

Carboxylic acid-modified metal oxide catalyst for selectivity-tunable aerobic ammoxidation

  • Xiuquan Jia,
  • Jiping Ma,
  • Fei Xia,
  • Yongming Xu,
  • Jin Gao,
  • Jie Xu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03358-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Precisely controlling the surface properties of base-metal oxide catalysts to tune the reaction selectivity remains a challenge. Here, the authors show that a green modification of manganese oxide surface with carboxylates can be used to tune the ammoxidation selectivity toward the desired products.