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December 21, 2022Angewandte ChemieOpen Access

Impact of Mineralizing Agents on Aluminum Distribution and Acidity of ZSM‐5 Zeolites

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SAShadi Al‐NahariEDEddy DibCCClaudia Cammarano

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Overview

Experimental study demonstrates mineralizing agents modulate aluminum distribution and acidity profiles in ZSM-5 zeolites, highlighting electrostatic control for catalyst design.

Key Points

  • To evaluate how fluoride versus hydroxide mineralizing agents influence aluminum distribution and resulting acid site strength across varying silicon-to-aluminum ratios in ZSM-5 zeolites.
  • Synthesized ZSM-5 zeolites across a wide silicon-to-aluminum range (Si/Al = 30 to 760) via hydrothermal synthesis using either fluoride (F−) or hydroxide (OH−) mineralizing agents.
  • Probed aluminum coordination environments and spatial site distribution using solid-state aluminum-27 nuclear magnetic resonance (27Al NMR) spectroscopy.
  • Fluoride mineralizers caused aluminum site proportions to vary systematically with the silicon-to-aluminum ratio, whereas hydroxide mineralizers maintained invariant aluminum distributions across the entire range (Si/Al = 30 to 760).
  • Contrasting aluminum arrangements led to opposing trends in weak versus strong acidity profiles between fluoride- and hydroxide-synthesized zeolites.
  • Discrepancies in aluminum siting were linked to spatial negative charge locations and the resulting competition between short- and long-range electrostatic forces during crystallization.

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Al‐Nahari et al. (2022) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6aaa35762d57de3e8317360ahttps://doi.org/10.1002/ange.202217992
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