Manganese acetate (MnAc) and manganese nitrate (MnN) were employed as precursors for the preparation of Mn(Ac)/TiO 2 , Mn (N)/TiO 2 , Mn(Ac)-Ce/TiO 2 , and Mn(N)-Ce/TiO 2 by impregnation. These complexes were used as catalysts in the low-temperature selective catalytic reduction of NO with NH 3 . The influence of manganese precursors on catalyst characteristics, the reduction activity, and the stability of the catalysts to poisoning by H 2 O and SO 2 were studied. Experiments showed that Mn(N) produced MnO 2 with large grain sizes in Mn(N)/TiO 2 catalyst. On the contrary, Mn(Ac) led to highly dispersed and amorphous Mn 2 O 3 in Mn (Ac)/TiO 2 catalyst, which had better catalytic activity and stability to SO 2 at low temperatures. The doping of cerium reduced the differences in catalytic performance between the catalysts derived from different Mn precursors.Implications: Developing catalyst for selective catalytic reduction (SCR) of NO x from stationary sources at low reaction temperature is an attractive and key area of alternative process for existing SCR technology due to economical and environmental reasons. Manganese-based catalysts were proven very active at low temperature. In this paper, comparative studies were conducted on how manganese precursors were affecting the properties of resultant Mn-based/TiO 2 catalysts. Different precursors could lead to different grain size of active components, manganese oxide dispersion, and surface phase state of Mn/TiO 2 catalyst, whereas these influences are reduced with the doping of cerium oxides into Mn/TiO 2 .