@article { ISI:000257719700006,
	title = {Functionalized SBA-15 and its catalytic applications in selective organic transformations},
	journal = {Catalysis Surveys from Asia},
	volume = {12},
	number = {2},
	year = {2008},
	month = {JUN},
	pages = {114-130},
	publisher = {SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS},
	type = {Article},
	address = {233 SPRING ST, NEW YORK, NY 10013 USA},
	abstract = {<p>Ordered, mesoporous SBA-15 functionalized with organic and inorganic moieties exhibits efficient catalytic activity in a variety of organic transformations. In this account, reviewing our own work, three-sets of surface-modified SBA-15 materials have been investigated. The first-set of materials consists of SBA-15 modified with organo-acidic (propyl thiol and propyl sulfonic acid) and basic (propyl amine and propyl adenine) moieties. The second-set of materials was prepared by grafting Mn complexes to the organo-functionalized SBA-15. The third-set composes of nanocrystalline metal oxides supported on SBA-15. All these catalysts have been characterized by structural and spectroscopic techniques. Catalytic activities of the first-set of solid materials have been investigated in acid/base-catalyzed reactions viz., ring-opening of epoxides with amines (producing beta-amino alcohols), esterification, three-component-Mannich reactions and cycloaddition of CO(2) to epoxides. The Mn complexes grafted on organofunctionalized SBA-15 are efficient catalysts for the chemo-, regio- and stereoselective aerial oxidation of monoterpenes at ambient conditions. TiO(x), VO(x), MoO(x) and WO(x) supported on SBA-15 catalyzed biomimetic oxyhalogenation of aromatic compounds. In all these reactions, the functionalized SBA-15 showed high selectivity.</p>},
	keywords = {grafted Mn-Salen complexes, Ordered mesoporous silica, organofunctionalized SBA-15, oxidation catalysts, Oxyhalogenation of aromatics},
	issn = {1571-1013},
	doi = {10.1007/s10563-008-9044-6},
	author = {Srinivas, Darbha and Saikia, Lakshi}
}
