The calcium phosphate tungsten bronze (Ca-PWB) has been synthesized and
characterized (TGA, DSC, XRPD, FTIR, SEM). The influence of solid insoluble
materials Ca- PWB, as well as lithium doped (Li-PWB) and cation free
phosphate tungsten (PWB) bronzes on the oscillatory Briggs-Rauscher (BR)
reaction dynamics, is compared. The results show that doping with Li and Ca
reduces sensitivity of the BR reaction towards bronzes addition. These
findings suggest the usage of the BR reaction as an innovative method for
testing of different properties of bronze material. The behavior of PWB in
the BR reaction is significantly changed with divalent cation (Ca2+) doping.
The reasons for the different bronzes behavior were found in their
calculated unit cell volumes. Namely, the compressed Ca-PWB unit cell volume
indicates the difficult availability of the active site for heterogeneous
catalysis. Hence, the linear correlation (slope) of the BR oscillogram?s
length (?osc) vs. mass of bronze in BR reaction might be considered as a new
parameter for the evaluation of the bronzes catalytic activity.