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Chemical Precipitation Method for the Synthesis of Nb2O5 Modified Bulk Nickel Catalysts with High Specific Surface Area
Published on: February 19, 2018
Two binuclear Ni-inserted polyoxotantalates based on {NiTa10O32} units with catalytic activity
Hui Zhao1, Hanhan Chen1, Ming Yang Zhang1
1Henan Key Laboratory of Polyoxometalate Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Henan University, Kaifeng, Henan 475004, China. jyniu@henu.edu.cn.
Abstract:
Two Ni-inserted polyoxotantalates, K5.5Na2H0.5[Ni(H2O)2{NiTa10O30(OH)2}]·21H2O (1) and K6Na4[Ni(en){NiTa10O32}]·22H2O (2, en = ethanediamine), were synthesized in this work. Crystallographic data analyses reveal that 1 and 2 have similar configurations. A minor difference between these two structures is that the {Ni(H2O)2} unit in 1 is replaced by {Ni(en)} unit in 2. Notably, the other Ni in 1 and 2 is located as a heteroatom at the center of the {Ta10} unit, which is reported in POTas for the first time. Moreover, 2 exhibits excellent catalytic performance in transesterification reactions in a preliminary exploration of the catalytic ability of the synthesized POTas.
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