The small pore zeolite chabazite (SSZ-13) in the copper exchanged form is a very efficient material for the selective catalytic reduction by ammonia (NH) of nitrogen oxides (NOx) from the exhaust of lean burn engines, typically diesel powered vehicles. The full mechanism occurring during the NH-SCR process is currently debated with outstanding questions including the nature and role of the catalytically active sites. Time-resolved operando spectroscopic techniques have been used to provide new level of insights in to the mechanism of NH-SCR, to show that the origin of stable Cu(I) species under SCR conditions is potentially caused by an interaction between NH and the Cu cations located in eight ring sites of the bulk of the zeolite and is independent of the NH-SCR of NOx occurring at Cu six ring sites within the zeolite.

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