States of surface V(IV)-bearing groups in phosphorus-vanadium oxide and titanium-vanadium oxide silica gels made by molecular epitaxy

ESR shows that V(IV) may occur in isolated or interacting vanadium-oxygen groups on the surfaces of catalytically active P-V and Ti-V-bearing silica gels; there is a relationship between the V(IV) content and the phthalic anhydride selectivity in the oxidation of o-xylene.Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Éksperimental'naya Khimiya, Vol. 28, No. 3, pp. 277–282, May–June, 1992.