“…Characterization of the chemical nature of surface active sites and of their properties are two major goals in catalysis research that have so far been pursued by using a variety of physical techniques including IR, visible, UV, and Raman spectroscopies, and ESR, ESCA, EXAFS, and X-ray diffraction (XRD), among others. Specifically, H MAS NMR spectroscopy was recently used for the structural elucidation of alumina (12)(13)(14), titanium oxide (15), vanadium oxide-aluminum orthophosphate systems (16), sepiolites (17), Mg/Ga double-layered hydroxides (18), magnesium pyrophosphate (19), and zeolites (20)(21)(22).…”