Project

Periodic Mesoporous Organosilicas (PMO) as bifunctional acid/base catalysts.

Code
3G006813
Duration
01 January 2013 → 31 December 2018
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Natural sciences
    • Inorganic chemistry
  • Engineering and technology
    • Catalysis and reacting systems engineering
    • Chemical product design and formulation
    • General chemical and biochemical engineering
    • Process engineering
    • Separation and membrane technologies
    • Transport phenomena
    • Other (bio)chemical engineering
Keywords
PMO descriptor heterogeneous catalysis
 
Project description

New synthesis routes are developed to create highly ordered mesoporous organosilicas (PMOs) having non mutually interacting acidic and basic functionalities. These catalysts will be tested in aldol condensations and catalyst descriptors will be developed using kinetic modeling.