Shaping of ZSM-5-Based Catalysts via Spray Drying: Effect on Methanol-to-Olefins Performance.

Shaping and optimal compositional formulation are major challenges in the successful industrial application of heterogeneous catalysts. The choice of components during formulation plays a vital role in endowing the final catalyst's mechanical strength, durability, and lifetime and may even affect activity and selectivity. Herein, we evaluate the application of spray drying to manufacture spherical ZSM-5-based catalysts and their applicability in the methanol-to-olefins process.

Magnetic anisotropy of a high-spin octanuclear nickel(II) complex with a meso-helicate core.

The octanickel(II) cluster 2b has been synthesized from the novel ferromagnetically coupled dinickel(II) metallacryptand 1b assembled from the m-phenylene-bis(oxamate) ligand. Complex 2b exhibits a dimer-of-tetramers structure, with two oxamate-bridged propeller-shaped tetranuclear units connected through three meta-substituted phenylenediamidate bridges, giving a metallacryptand core of the meso-helicate type. Complex 2b behaves as a ferromagnetically coupled dimer of two S=2 Ni(II)4 units with appreciable magnetic anisotropy.