Catalytic aerogel-like materials dried at ambient pressure for liquid-phase epoxidation

Abstract

Titanium-containing hydrophobic silica with a pore volume and pore sizes in the range of aerogels was prepared by silylation before drying of well-dispersed mixed oxides obtained via a sol-gel method; it showed remarkable properties as a catalyst in the epoxidation of styrene with Bu^tOOH.

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