Catalytic conversion of alcohols. Part 16.—Attempt to correlate the ESCA oxygen 1s binding energy with the selectivity
Abstract
Neither the dehydration nor the terminal alkene selectivity for the conversion of secondary and tertiary alcohols over more than twenty metal oxide catalysts was related to the oxygen 1s binding energy of the catalyst. Even the attempt to correlate the selectivity to the oxygen 1s binding energy within a smaller group of metal oxide catalysts, Group IIIA or IVB, was not successful.