Synthesis and characterization of mono-iron(III)-substituted molybdophosphate, thesolidification as a heterogeneous catalyst, and the oxidative dehydrogenation of 2-propanolwere reported. The catalyst was isolated as Cs
2.8H
1.2PMo
11Fe(H
2O)O
39·6H
2O, and characterized by elemental analysis and X-ray diffraction, infrared,
31P NMR, and ESR spectroscopy.The Fe
3+ in Cs
2.8H
1.2PMo
11Fe(H
2O)O
39·6H
2O was incorporated into the molybdophosphateframework while that in Fe
3+(2.5 wt %)/Cs
3.0PMo
12O
40 existed as a countercation in arelatively distorted octahedral site. The seven water molecules were desorbed by the thermaltreatment at 63
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C and the cesium hydrogen salt was stable below 210
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C. The cesiumhydrogen salt was used for heterogeneous oxidative dehydrogenation of 2-propanol to acetoneand intrinsically has a higher rate than those for the iron-impregnated Fe
3+/Cs
3.0PMo
12O
40and Cs
3.0PMo
12O
40 catalysts, showing the effectiveness of isolated iron in the PMo
11O
397-polyoxometalate on the oxidative dehydrogenation. The data for the stop of the supply ofthe oxygen at the stationary state in the flow experiment showed that acetone was producedby the reaction of 2-propanol with the cesium hydrogen salt. The correlation between intrinsicrates of oxidative dehydrogenation of 2-propanol and reducibility of catalysts, the rateequation of -
d[2-PrOH]/
dt =
k·P
2-PrOH0.80·PO
2-0.06, and kinetic isotope effects of 1.6-1.9showed that the reduction of the catalyst with the
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-hydrogen elimination from 2-propanolwas the rate-determining step.