The production of conjugated C4–C5 dienes from biomass can enable the sustainable synthesis many important polymers and liquid fuels. Here, we report first example bimetallic (Nb, Al)-atomically doped mesoporous silica, denoted as AlNb-MCM-41, which affords quantitative conversion 2-methyltetrahydrofuran (2-MTHF) to pentadienes with a high selectivity 91 %. incorporation AlIII NbV sites into fr...

The observation of molecular clusters has been of interest for some time. Molecular clusters can show quite different dynamic and static phase behaviour from bulk systems, and, because of their limited size, are accessible to computational molecular dynamics techniques.1-3 Experimentally, molecular clusters are made using several methods, including supersonic jets, vapours, confinement of phase...

the direct and indirect methods in solvent media and grinding method in a solvent-free media were used to prepare the mcm-41/zno and mcm-48/zno photocatalysts. the x-ray diffraction (xrd) patterns showed that zinc oxide nanoparticles were put into mcm-41 and mcm-48 substrates and there were zno crystallites as secondary phase in the extra framework of mesoporous materials. the decrease of surfa...

The discovery of mesoporous molecular sieves, MCM-41, which possesses a regular hexagonalarray of uniform pore openings, aroused a worldwide resurgence in this field. This is not onlybecause it has brought about a series of novel mesoporous materials with various compositionswhich may find applications in catalysis, adsorption, and guest-host chemistry, but also it hasopened a new avenue for cr...

Diamines covalently coupled to glass substrates promoted human foreskin fibroblast adhesion in the absence of serum. These diamine-derivatized substrates were produced by coupling ethylene diamine, N-methylaminoethylamine, and N,N-dimethylaminoethylamine (NNDMAEA), to sulfonyl chloride-activated glass. Electron spectroscopy for chemical analysis demonstrated that the diamines were coupled via t...

incorporation of [fe(bipy)cl4][bipy.h] (1) (where bipy is 2,2′-bipyridine) in the molecular sieves of the type lta, nay and mesoporous al-mcm-41 by using a “ship in a bottle synthesis” approach was investigated. [fe(bipy)cl4][bipy.h] was successfullyincorporated in the channels ofmesoporousal-mcm-41, and the product was characterized by x-ray diffraction, ftir and bet analysis. it was fou...

Nanoporous materials such as Mobil composite material number 41 (MCM-41) are attractive for applications such as catalysis, adsorption, supports, and carriers. Green synthesis of MCM-41 is particularly appealing because the chemical reagents are useful and valuable. We report on the eco-friendly synthesis of MCM-41 nanoporous materials via multi-cycle approach by re-using the non-reacted reagen...