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Chem Commun (Camb)
; 50(47): 6232-5, 2014 Jun 14.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-24787979
ABSTRACT
Amorphous alumino phosphate (AP) and zirconium phosphate (ZP) materials possessing an ordered nanoporosity have been successfully synthesized by a hydrothermal method using a P123 block co-polymer as the structure directing agent. The materials exhibited excellent catalytic activity towards selective alkylation of phenol with cyclohexanol, where AP showed as high as 100% selectivity to produce the industrially important O-alkylation product, while the corresponding ZP selectively produced a C-alkylation product (93% selectivity).