Mark A. Harmer, Qun Sun, Michael J. Michalczyk and Zhenyu Yang
A new versatile reagent, a perfluorosulfonate/trisilanol [(OH)3Si(CH2)3(CF2)2 O(CF2)2SO3-M +], is synthesized and a series of surface bound strong solid acid catalysts developed which are active for catalyzing a range of reactions, for example alkene isomerization, alkylations and acylations.