“…The resulting catalysts were sulfided and evaluated for their performance in the hydrocracking of a heavy VGO feedstock. As exemplified in literature [8,10,12,45,46], differences in catalytic activity in VGO hydrocracking can be related to the zeolite component as long as the other properties such as the hydrogenation function and catalyst loading are kept the same. To support this supposition, the final hydrocracking catalysts were characterized by nitrogen physisorption, UV-Vis DRS, Laser Raman spectroscopy (LRS) in calcined form and XPS surface (Tables S1 and S2 of supporting information).…”