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Walter Doerflinger

Hans Martan

Hans-Peter Neumann

Hermann Petersen

Peter Neumann

Ulrich Hammon

Andreas Tenten

Helmut Tesch

Herbert Stutz

Dietmar Nissen

Peter Weidlich

Gerhard Schaefer

Manfred Heym

A process for regenerating spent multimetal oxide oxidation catalysts from the catalytic gas-phase oxidation of lower organic compounds and which, in fresh form, contain as basic constituents the elements Mo, W, V and Cu in oxidic form, by the action of oxidizing agents or means and solubilizing, aqueous ammonia to which acetic acid and/or the ammonium salt thereof has been added, with subsequent drying and calcination, comprises quantitatively determining the content of metallic constituents during the process and making this content up to the respective original value.

Regeneration of spent multimetal oxide oxidation catalysts from the

A process for the gas phase catalytic oxidation of a C.sub.3-6 alkane, alkanol, alkene or alkenal using as a catalyst multimetal oxide compositions of the formula I, [X.sup.1.sub.a X.sup.2.sub.b O.sub.x ].sub.p [X.sup.3.sub.c X.sup.4.sub.d X.sup.5.sub.e X.sup.6.sub.f X.sup.7.sub.g X.sup.2.sub.h O.sub.y ].sub.q, where X.sup.1 is bismuth, tellurium, antimony, tin and/or copper, X.sup.2 is molybdenum and/or tungsten, X.sup.3 is an alkali metal, thallium and/or samarium, X.sup.4 is an alkaline earth metal, nickel, cobalt, copper, manganose, zinc, tin, cadmium and/or mercury, X.sup.6 is iron, chromium, cerium and/or vanadium, X.sup.6 is phosphorus, arsenic, boron and/or antimony, X.sup.7 is a rare-earth metal, titanium, zirconium, niobium, tantalum, rhenium, ruthenium, rhodium, silver, gold, aluminum, gallium, indium, silicon, geranium, lead, thorium and/or uranium, a is from 0.01 to 8, b is from 0.1 to 30, c is from 0 to 4, d is from 0 to 20, e is from 0 to 20, f is from 0 to 6, g is from 0 to 15, h is from 8 to 16, x and y are numbers determined by the valency and frequency of the elements in I other than oxygen, and p and q are numbers whose ratio p/q is from 0.1 to 10, containing three-dimensional regions with a chemical composition X.sup.1.sub.a X.sup.2.sub.b O.sub.x which are delimited from their local environment due to their chemical composition which is different from their local environment, and whose maximum diameter is from 1 to 25 .mu.m.

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