| Abstract: | The rate of the reduction of nitrogen monoxide by carbon monoxide on transition metal oxides and mixed catalysts based on them and the rates of the individual interactions of the reactants with the catalysts at different extends of reduction of the surface have been studied. These data, as well as the results of an investigation of the adsorbed molecules by IF diffuse reflectance spectroscopy attest to a concerted mechanism of catalysis, which includes a step resulting in the formation of a nitrosyl complex. It has been concluded that catalysts for this reaction must contain complex-forming eléments, which may be oxides of iron, cobalt, and nickel among the oxides and may be rhodium, ruthenium, and palladium among the metals, in their composition.Azerbaidzhan Institute of Petroleum and Chemistry, Baku. Translated from Teoreticheskaya i ÉksperimentaI'naya Khimiya, Vol. 27, No. 5, pp. 567–573, September–October, 1991. Original article submitted July 23, 1991. |
