Oxygen between species

The role of oxygen and hydrogen solutions in the metal catalyst does not appear to be that of impeding the major reactions, but merely to provide a source of these reactants which is uniformly distributed diroughout the catalyst particles, without decreasing die number of surface sites available to methane adsorption. It is drerefore quite possible that a significatit fraction of the reaction takes place by the formation of products between species adsorbed on the surface, and dissolved atoms just below the surface, but in adjacent sites to the active surface sites. 

On the other hand, it is generally accepted that the redox properties of the selective oxidation catalysts control the oxygen activation as well as the surface stabilization of the oxygen activated species and their reactivity (19), In particular, the stabilization of active oxygen forms requires the presence of reduced sites on the surface. In fact, the peculiar behaviour of Mo, V and Fe oxides in selective oxidation reactions is strictly linked with the stabilization of reduced states (19), This point has stimulated a growing interest in providing correlation between the degree of reduction (32) or the extent of reduced sites (20) and the reactivity in... 

The N02 decomposition is considerably more complicated and is discussed in more detail in Section IV-B-3. However, it will be shown that the important N03 species, especially at higher temperatures (200-400°C), is most probably the symmetric one, as Ashmore and co-workers8,9 contend. Still, there have also been arguments in favor of the pernitrite species in this system. Ogg337 observed the exchange of isotopic oxygen between 02 and N02 in the presence of NO, which he argued could only be explained by the mechanism... 

Boreskov (18) has proposed a model for transition metal compounds in which the rate of oxidation is assumed to be determined by the rate of electron transfer between oxygen and the transition metal ion. This process is further assumed to be facilitated with increasing degree of covalency of the metal-oxygen bond. Thus the more covalent transition metal oxides are more active than the rather ionic metal ion-exchanged zeolites. The oxygen-bridged species as described above is considered to be more covalent in character, and hence more active for oxidation catalysis than the transition... 

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