August 1, 2000
Journal Article

Detection of the ‘invisible aluminium’ and characterisation of the multiple aluminium environments in zeolite USY by high-field solid-state NMR

Abstract

The detection of all of the aluminium present in steamed zeolite H-Y catalysts by 27Al MAS NMR at high field (18.8 T, 800 MHz for 1H) is reported; further, it is shown that it is possible by 27Al MAS and MQMAS measurements to clearly identify four separate aluminium environments characteristic of these materials and to unambiguously assign their coordinations. intensities of both spectra indicate that signal is observed from 100% of the aluminium present. The MQMAS experiment introduced by Frydman and Harwood12 (Fig. 2) correlates peaks in the MAS dimension (F2) to signals in the isotropic dimension (F1), with shifts in this dimension being a linear combination of isotropic chemical and

Revised: August 6, 2003 | Published: August 1, 2000

Citation

Fyfe C.A., J.L. Bretherton, and L.Y. Lam. 2000. Detection of the ‘invisible aluminium’ and characterisation of the multiple aluminium environments in zeolite USY by high-field solid-state NMR. Chemical Communications.