ACIDIC AND BASIC PROPERTIES OF ZEOLITE-CONTAINING CRACKING CATALYST
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worth noting that n-alkene activation was accompa- cates that the POC formed during oxycracking is dif-
nied by the formation of side products (carbocations) ferent, i.e., less condensed.
in the first minutes of the isomerization process. Car-
bocations are very active particles that react with
adsorbed particles at exceptionally high rates, resulting
in the accumulation of tightly adsorbed, high molecu-
lar weight structures on the surface of a catalyst,
thereby increasing the carbonization of the surface,
blocking the aprotic active centers of the catalyst, and
thus reducing olefin conversion and catalyst activity
for a short period of time.
Further investigation of the location of the stabili-
zation and coordination environment of oxygen is
required in order to fully understand the mechanism
of hydrocarbon activation with the participation of
such centers, and the possible role of radical-like oxy-
gen in the process. The authors plan to conduct such a
study in the future.
CONCLUSIONS
Analysis of dependences of the ratio of butene-2
isomers produced during butene-1 isomerization in
the presence of ZCC samples that had participated in
the oxycracking process suggests that the acidic and
basic properties of these samples were determined not
only by the protic acidic centers of the catalyst samples
but by their basic centers as well. The availability of
such centers follows from the clearly pronounced cis-
stereospecific isomerization of butene-1. The forma-
tion of this type of isomer is likely related to the avail-
ability of Lewis acidic centers [29, 34, 35]. On the
other hand, the high degree of carbonization of the
samples subjected to oxycracking casts some doubt on
their contribution in this particular case. It follows that
other active centers prone to display electron acceptor
properties participated in the activation of the initial
olefin. Since the enhanced isomerization activity
observed in our studies correlated with the activity in
the process of oxycracking, we assume that the struc-
tural features of this type of active centers were based
on their having emerged and evolved under the influ-
ence of the reaction medium and oxygen. The nature
of these centers is as yet unknown, but we speculate
that carbonate and carboxylate oxycomplexes form in
the process of oxycracking, and in turn form products
of oxidative compaction (POC) on a catalyst’s surface.
The results obtained in our investigation of butene-1
isomerization show that the formation of cis-/trans-
isomers of butene-2 in the presence of samples that
had already participated in the process of traditional
catalytic cracking occurs with the participation of
protic acidic centers. It was established that the higher
isomerization ability of the samples that had already
participated in the process of oxycracking was due to
changes in the structure of active centers, particularly
the formation and participation of surface oxygen cen-
ters embedded in the structure of the products of oxi-
dative compaction. Our conclusions on the change in
the nature of the active centers of ZCC samples allows
us to explain the enhanced activity and stability of the
samples that had already participated in the process of
oxycracking and butene-1 isomerization.
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