Detection of low levels of Brønsted acidity in Na +Y and Na +X zeolites

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V. Jayathirtha Rao , Deborah L. Perlstein , Rebecca J. Robbins , P. H. Lakshminarasimhan , Hsien-Ming Kao , Clare P. Grey and V. Ramamurthy


Abstract

By using retinyl acetate, retinol and retinyl Schiff base as probes, zeolites NaY and NaX are demonstrated to possess a small number of Brønsted acidic sites; the color test employed here is potentially simple and may be universally applied.


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