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Morphology of and Catalysis in Single Crystals of Zeolites
Author(s) -
Schoonheydt Robert A.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200801327
Subject(s) - carbocation , morphology (biology) , zeolite , synchrotron , catalysis , crystallography , single crystal , microscopy , spectroscopy , materials science , chemistry , nanotechnology , photochemistry , physics , organic chemistry , optics , geology , paleontology , quantum mechanics
Dynamic duo : Combined spectroscopy and microscopy techniques now allow the nature of active sites on zeolite catalysts to be determined in detail. For example, synchrotron IR microscopy reveals the dimeric carbocation of 4‐fluorostyrene in a single crystal of ZSM‐5 (see picture).