Anne Galarneau, Anis Barodawalla and Thomas J. Pinnavaia
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.