2005 Volume 48 Issue 3 Pages 178-179
Needle-like crystals of ruthenium-molybdenum polyoxometalate having a composition of Na4(NH4)[RuMo7O25]•8H2O (RuMo7) were synthesized with high reproducibility. With cetylpyridinium cation, RuMo7 was modified and its catalytic features were evaluated using oxidation of cyclohexanol to cyclohexanone with t -butyl hydroperoxide or hydrogenperoxide (H2O2). The results indicated that RuMo7 exhibits high rate for the former reaction and that RuMo7 has high potential for H2O2 decomposition.