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Imine Metathesis by Silica-Supported Catalysts Using the Methodology of Surface Organometallic Chemistry
Published on: October 18, 2019
In situ assembly of layered double hydroxide nano-crystallites within silica mesopores and its high solid base
1Laboratory of Advanced Functional Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|February 20, 2008
Abstract:
Mg-Al layered double hydroxide (LDH) nanocrystallites with a lateral size less than 9 nm were in situ synthesized within the pore channels of mesoporous silica materials, creating one of the most active heterogeneous base catalysts owing to the high number of active edge sites.
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