Iron-substituted bismuth molybdate

Bismuth Molybdates And Iron Substituted Bismuth Molybdates... 

Finally, Arrhenius treatments of the catalytic data were examined for the HTAD synthesized substitutional series, Bi(2-2x) 2x 030i2, and the binary bismuth molybdate series where Bi/Mo ratios were varied fi-om pure Mo oxide to pure Bi oxide. The noteworthy aspect of the oxidation results is that in the most reactive regime of x = 0-5% atom fi-action Fe, before separate phase Fe3Mo30j2 begins to dominate the catalyst composition in the iron series, the apparent activation energies were all in the range of 19-20 kcal/mol. Furthermore, the activation energies for the pure Bi-Mo series were between 19-20 kcal/mol while the activities were considerable different. Thus, the chief difference in the reactivities in both series is in the preexponential factor, i.e. the number of active sites. 

LoJacono et al. (108) also utilized X-ray diffraction methods to study the structural and phase transformations which occurred in the Bi-Fe-Mo oxide system. They detected two ternary compounds containing bismuth, molybdenum, and iron. One of the compounds formed when the atomic ratio Bi/Fe/Mo = 1 1 1 the other formed when the atomic ratio Bi/Fe/Mo = 3 1 2. The X-ray data indicated a close structural relationship of the bismuth iron molybdate compounds with the scheelite structure of a-phase bismuth molybdate. Moreover, their structures were similar to compound X. The structure of the Bi/Fe/Mo = 3 1 2 compound was identical to the compound reported by Sleight and Jeitschko (107). The authors proposed that the structures of both of the compounds could be viewed as resulting from the substitution of Fe3+ in the a-phase lattice. In the Bi/Fe/Mo = 1 1 1 compound, 1 Mo6+ ion is replaced by 2 Fe3+ ions one Fe3+ ion occupies a Mo6+ site the other Fe3+ ion occupies one of the vacant bismuth sites. In the Bi/Fe/Mo = 3 1 2 compound, the Fe3+ ion replaces one Mo6+ ion while the additional Bi3+ ion occupies one of the vacant bismuth sites. 

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