Über Oberflächenverbindungen von Übergangsmetallen. X [1]. Zum Stöchiometrie-Problem der Bindung von Oberflächen-Chrom(II) an Silicagel

On Surface Compounds of Transition Metals. X. The stoichiometry Problem of Fixation of Surface Chromium (II) on Silicagel. Thermogravimetric analysis of a reduced Philips catalyst (support: silicagel “Merck 7733”) shows that the metal is bound prediminantly (if not only) in chromate-like units up to a concentration of 2,8% Cr^II. At higher Cr^II contents. up to the maximum of 3.5%, the additionally fixed chromium does not consume further OH^s, within the scope of the thermogravimetric method formation of polychromatelike structures and/or use of not-neighbouring OH groups. The analysis further demonstrates that not all the Si? Oh groups comprised by the method are able to accommodate surface chromium. The fixation of the metal seems to proceed most likely by reaction with the vicinal pairs of Si? OH, as a correlation of our data with silica models shows.