Abstract
The nature, strength and density of surface acid sites in Sn-MFI molecular sieves with different Sn-content were characterized by N 1s high resolution photoelectron peak of chemisorbed pyridine in combination with pyridine-IR and TPAD. Two peaks emerged at 399.5 ± 0.2 and 401.5 ± 0.2 eV by deconvoluting composite N 1s peak were assigned to chemisorbed pyridine on weak and relatively strong Lewis acid sites, respectively. The relative percentage of strong Lewis acid sites was found to increase with the decrease of framework Sn content. A close agreement was observed between the ratios of weak Lewis acid sites to strong Lewis acid sites obtained from XPS and TPAD.
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