Niobium Compounds: Preparation, Characterization, and Application in Heterogeneous Catalysis
Niobium Compounds: Preparation, Characterization, and Application in Heterogeneous Catalysis
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10.1002/chin.200006280
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2010-06
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I. Nowak;M. Ziolek
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I. Nowak;M. Ziolek
Niobium chemistry is not widely known despite increasing interest in the application of niobium compounds within many fields. Niobium materials are presently of great interest in heterogeneous catalysis where they are used as catalyst components or are added in small amounts to catalysts. The growing focus on niobium catalysts has led to international conferences devoted mainly or exclusively to the chemistry and catalysis of niobium within the past decade. These conferences in turn resulted in interesting review papers by Tanabe in 19901 and Tanabe and Okazaki in 19952 that primarily describe the catalytic application of niobium compounds. This review presents a broader view of niobium chemistry including many aspects of the preparation, structure, and physicochemical and catalytic properties of niobium compounds as well as their applications. The characterization of the niobium compounds is very important to the discussion of their catalytic activity and for the prediction of both their activity and selectivity in various reactions. Thus, the characterization of niobium, niobium oxides, phosphates, molecular sieves containing niobium (zeolites, mesoporous materials of MCM-41 type, mesoporous oxides), and other niobium compounds such as oxynitrides, carbides, and sulfides is covered in this paper. In addition, one section is devoted to the application of these compounds in heterogeneous catalysis. This review is based mainly on the literature from 1990 to the present. About half of the included papers were published after the last review, 2 while many others were not included in the previous review articles. 1, 2