Highly selective production of linear 1-heptadecene from stearic acid over a partially reduced MoOx catalyst

Zihao Zhang; Yafei Li; Francis Okejiri; Miaomiao Liu; Hao Chen; Jixing Liu; Kequan Chen; Xiuyang Lu; Pingkai Ouyang; Jie Fu

doi:10.1039/d0cc01307b

Highly selective production of linear 1-heptadecene from stearic acid over a partially reduced MoO_x catalyst

Chem Commun (Camb). 2020 Apr 25;56(32):4456-4459. doi: 10.1039/d0cc01307b. Epub 2020 Mar 20.

Authors

Zihao Zhang¹, Yafei Li, Francis Okejiri, Miaomiao Liu, Hao Chen, Jixing Liu, Kequan Chen, Xiuyang Lu, Pingkai Ouyang, Jie Fu

Affiliation

¹ Key Laboratory of Biomass Chemical Engineering of Ministry of Education, College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China. jiefu@zju.edu.cn.

PMID: 32196035
DOI: 10.1039/d0cc01307b

Abstract

Here, a MoO_x-T based catalyst was developed by a simple reduction of MoO₃ precursors at different temperatures. Interestingly, a partially reduced MoO_x-600 catalyst obtained by reducing the MoO₃ precursor at 600 °C shows the co-existence of a mixture of different valence states (0, +4, ∼+6) of Mo, and as a result, provides a superior catalytic activity.