Abstract
Mesoporous solids have widespread potential for chemistry including catalysis, reagents, trapping, and transport. This chapter presents a number of chemically modified porous materials including those based on silica, acid-treated clays, zirconia, and expanded starches along with illustrative examples of their application. Chemical processes must be more efficient and less wasteful and chemical products must be less harmful to the environment as well as to life. One key area of clean technology is the replacement of hazardous acids, bases, metal, and other hazardous traditional reagents especially for use in liquid phase organic reactions widely used in the speciality chemical and pharmaceutical industries. The chapter reviews a series of mesoporous solids with surfaces designed to provide the activity appropriate for many reactions and structures designed to enable fast throughput of many organic molecules. Successful applications include acid-catalyzed rearrangements and oligomerizations, partial oxidations including those of steroids, immobilized palladium, and solid base-catalyzed C–C bond forming reactions.
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