Zhongcheng Li, Chunhui Chen, Ensheng Zhan, Na Ta, Yong Li and Wenjie Shen
Chem. Commun., 2014,50, 4469-4471
DOI:
10.1039/C4CC00242C,
Communication
Belt-shaped molybdenum carbides in α- and β-phases were synthesized by reducing and carburizing a nano-sized α-MoO3 precursor with hydrocarbon–hydrogen mixtures at appropriate temperatures; the β-Mo2C nanobelts with a higher fraction of coordinatively unsaturated Mo sites were more active than the α-MoC1−x nanobelts in dehydrogenation of benzyl alcohol to benzaldehyde.
