address: vvk@catalysis.ru (V.V. Kaichev). A B S T R A C TThe methanol oxidation over highly dispersed vanadium oxide supported on TiO 2 (anatase) has been investigated by in situ Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), near ambient pressure X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (NAP XPS), X-ray absorption near edge structure (XANES), and temperature-programmed reaction spectroscopy. The data were complimented with kinetics measurements in a flow reactor. It was found that at low temperatures dimethoxymethane competes with methyl formate, whereas the production of formaldehyde is greatly inhibited. FTIR shows the presence of non-dissociatively adsorbed molecules of methanol, as well as adsorbed methoxy, dioximethylene, and formate species under reaction conditions. According to the NAP XPS and XANES data, the reaction involves the reversible reduction of V 5+ cations, pointing that the vanadia lattice oxygen participates in the methanol oxidation through the classical Mars-van Krevelen mechanism. The detailed mechanism of the methanol oxidation on vanadia catalysts is discussed.

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