“…Many fundamental researches have been, accordingly, conducted on molybdenum catalysts supported on zeolite both in oxidic and sulfided states. Molybdenum oxide precursors on zeolite are prepared by a variety of techniques; solid state reactions of MoCl 5 with hydroxyl groups in the cavities of H-form zeolites (Eugene and Lunsford, 1980;Johns and Howe, 1985;Howe et al, 1989), ion exchanges of zeolite extra framework cations with MoO 2 2+ (Howe et al, 1980;Minming and Howe, 1987;Howe and Minming, 1988;Ezzamarty et al, 1989), oxidation of Mo(CO) 6 encaged in zeolite (Komatsu et al, 1985;Ozin et al, 1992;Okamoto et al, 1993;Welters et al, 1994;Vorbeck et al, 1994), or most conventionally, impregnation of an aqueous solution of ammonium heptamolybdate (Cid et al, 1984;Cid et al, 1985;Lopez Agudo et al, 1986;Fierro et al, 1987;Corma et al, 1988;Leglise et al, 1988;Ezzamarty et al, 1989;Anderson et al, 1993a;Thoret et al, 1993;Kulbe et al, 1993;Welters et al, 1994). The last method usually accompanies calcination procedures in air at elevated temperatures to decompose the molybdenum compound.…”