Research Institute for Catalysis, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
Abstract:
Two novel Mo5+ ions, different from either the D2d symmetry Mo5+ on anatase or the D2hMo5+ on rutile, appeared on partially reduced molybdenum oxide supported on -titanic acid. The oxygen molecule is held on one of these novel Mo5+ ions but is not reduced to the superoxide ion. Oxygen is reduced to O−2 entirely by the Mo4+ ion formed from the D2d symmetry ion and the O−2 is subsequently stabilized after moving to a Ti4+-site.