JOURNAL ARTICLE

Porous clay heterostructures (PCH) as acid catalysts

Anne GalarneauAnis BarodawallaThomas J. Pinnavaia

Year: 1997 Journal:   Chemical Communications Pages: 1661-1662   Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry

Abstract

Porous clay heterostructures formed by surfactant assembly of open framework silica in the galleries of a smectite clay represent a new family of solid acid catalysts, as evidenced by the selective dehydration of 2-methylbut-3-yn-2-ol to 2-methylbut-3-yn-1-ene.

Keywords:
Catalysis Porosity Clay minerals Heterojunction Chemical engineering Chemistry Materials science Mineralogy Organic chemistry Engineering Optoelectronics

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