<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Vijayaraj, M.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Murugan, B.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Shubhangi B. Umbarkar</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hegde, S. G.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gopinath, Chinnakonda S.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Insight into the mechanism of selective mono-N-methylation of aniline on Cu1-xZnxFe2O4: a DRIFTS study</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Journal of Molecular Catalysis A - Chemical</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Aniline</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cu1-xZnxFe2O4</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">desorption limited</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">DRIFT</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">IR</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Methanol</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">N-methylaniline</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">N-methylation</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">reaction mechanism</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2005</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">APR</style></date></pub-dates></dates><number><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1-2</style></number><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV</style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">PO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS</style></pub-location><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">231</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">169-180</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Mechanism of selective mono-N-methylation of aniline with methanol on Cu1-xZn2FeO4 catalysts was investigated in detail. The interaction of reactants (aniline. methanol and methanol: aniline) and possible products (N-methylaniline (NMA), N,N-dimethylaniline (DMA) and o-toluidine (OT)) on catalysts surface was studied by temperature-dependent in situ FTIR spectroscopy. Methanol adsorbs dissociatively over catalysts surface at 373 K as methoxy species and is oxidized to formate species at high temperature through dioxymethylene and/or formaldehyde as a surface intermediate species. On the other hand, adsorption of aniline:methanol mixtures shows that methanol oxidation was completely hindered in the presence of aniline. Aniline adsorbs on the Lewis acid sites at &amp;lt;= 373 K with phenyl ring oriented in a perpendicular manner to the catalyst surfaced however, N-H bond scission occurs above 373 K. A comparison of adsorbed NMA and methanol: am line (3:1) mixture on Cu0.5Zn0.5Fe2O4 shows NMA forms from the reaction mixture at 473 K. However, maximum activity at 573 K in catalytic reaction studies suggests that desorption limits the methylation kinetics. FTIR study displays stable aniline and methyl species on ZnFe2O4 even at 573 K; however. no methyl species is detected on Cr0.95Zn0.05Fe2O4 at 473 K due to methanol reforming reaction and that limits the overall reaction and hence low catalytic activity. It is proposed that methanol is protonated on catalysts surface by the labile H+ due to N-H bond scission. Co-adsorption of acidity probes with aniline and methanol indicates that aniline methylation takes place at single acid-base site. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1-2</style></issue><work-type><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Article</style></work-type><custom3><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Foreign&lt;/p&gt;</style></custom3><custom4><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">3.958</style></custom4></record></records></xml>