The dehydration and dehydrogenation of sec-butanol were carried out on zinc phosphate catalyst. The catalyst was found to show a very high selectivity for the dehydrogenation, when calcined at 650°C, though it showed a high selectivity for the dehydration when calcined at 300°C. The active sites for the dehydrogenation were confirmed to be basic sites by a poisoning experiment.
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