Andreas Philippou, Fathollah Salehirad, Donat-Pierre Luigi and Michael W. Anderson
The formation of stable surface methoxy groups in various zeolite-catalysed reaction processes has been widely accepted as an important intermediate stage and the understanding of such an intermediacy is of great significance. 13C magic-angle-turning (MAT) NMR experiments, in conjunction with theoretical calculations of 13C shielding tensors, are employed to investigate the chemical and electronic nature of methoxy groups on H-SAPO-34.