Abstract
We have carried out ethanol conversion reactions on the MoO3 under the pulse infrared irradiations (period = 2 s) with several wavelengths emitted from free-electron-laser. We found a piece of evidence to show the dependence of activities in the ethanol conversion rate on the infrared wavelengths. When the wavelength was tuned to 967 cm-1, which corresponded to the absorption frequency of 0.167 nm Mo=O bond, C 2H5OH was converted mainly to C2H4 with CH3CHO as a minor product while no reaction occurred at 1200 cm-1 where no resonant vibration mode of MoO3 was present. The reaction products were different from those produced in thermal reactions.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 558-559 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| Journal | Chemistry Letters |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue number | 5 |
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| Publication status | Published - 5 May 2004 |