V. Jayathirtha Rao , Deborah L. Perlstein , Rebecca J. Robbins , P. H. Lakshminarasimhan , Hsien-Ming Kao , Clare P. Grey and V. Ramamurthy
By using retinyl acetate, retinol and retinyl Schiff base as probes, zeolites NaY and NaX are demonstrated to possess a small number of Brønsted acidic sites; the color test employed here is potentially simple and may be universally applied.