Nickel compounds, vanadium phosphates

This article is focused on HDN, the removal of nitrogen from compounds in oil fractions. Hydrodemetallization, the removal of nickel and vanadium, is not discussed, and HDS is discussed only as it is relevant to HDN. Section II is a discussion of HDN on sulfidic catalysts the emphasis is on the mechanisms of HDN and how nitrogen can be removed from specific molecules with the aid of sulfidic catalysts. Before the discussion of these mechanisms, Section II.A provides a brief description of the synthesis of the catalyst from the oxidic to the sulfidic form, followed by current ideas about the structure of the final, sulfidic catalyst and the catalytic sites. All this information is presented with the aim of improving our understanding of the catalytic mechanisms. Section II.B includes a discussion of HDN mechanisms on sulfidic catalysts to explain the reactions that take place in today s industrial HDN processes. Section II.C is a review of the role of phosphate and fluorine additives and current thinking about how they improve catalytic activity. Section II.D presents other possibilities for increasing the activity of the catalyst, such as by means of other transition-metal sulfides and the use of supports other than alumina. 

Although the structural chemistry of molybdenum and vanadium phosphates is very diverse these compounds seem to be prototypes for open framework transition and main group metal phosphates. Recent results have shown that zeolite-like compounds like zinc/cobalt phosphates [731, indium phosphates [74], nickel/aluminum phosphates [75], cobalt/boron phosphates [76], manganese and cobalt phosphonates with giant 44-membered rings forming ellipsoidal cavities [77] can be synthesized. All these examples show that the diverse chemistry of octahedral-tetrahedral framework structures is a vast field where... 

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