@article { ISI:000259845000014,
	title = {Inorganic-organic hybrid materials based on functionalized silica and carbon: a comprehensive understanding toward the structural property and catalytic activity difference over mesoporous silica and carbon supports},
	journal = {Microporous and Mesoporous Materials},
	volume = {115},
	number = {3},
	year = {2008},
	month = {NOV},
	pages = {345-355},
	publisher = {ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV},
	type = {Article},
	address = {PO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS},
	abstract = {<p>Inorganic-organic hybrid materials based on functionalized silica and carbon were synthesized by anchoring molybdovanadophosphoric acid (H-5[PMo10V2O40]center dot 32.5H(2)O) onto amine-functionalized SBA-15, ethane-bridged SBA-15 and mesoporous carbon, respectively. Small angle X-ray diffraction, N-2 sorption analysis, HRTEM, SEM, IFT-IR, CP-MAS NMR were used to diagnose the mesoporous structure of inorganic-organic hybrid materials. The structural integrity of molybdovanadophosphoric acid has been found to be retained after immobilization over mesoporous materials. These inorganic-organic hybrid materials were tested in the environmentally friendly oxidation of 2-methylnaphthalene (2MN) with 30\%, aqueous hydrogen peroxide. Molybdovanadophosphoric acid containing mesoporous organosilica hybrid material (ethane-bridged SBA-15) exhibited higher catalytic activities in the oxidation of 2MN to give a clean product 2-methy-1,4-naphthoquinone (menadione vitamin K3 precursor), because of the improved hydrophobicity of the material. The correlation between structural properties and catalytic activities of these hybrid materials has been well addressed in our present studies. (c) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.</p>},
	keywords = {2-Methylnaphthalene, inorganic-organic hybrid materials, mesoporous carbon, mesoporous organosilica, Oxidation},
	issn = {1387-1811},
	doi = {10.1016/j.micromeso.2008.02.005},
	author = {Bordoloi, Ankur and Mathew, Nevin T. and Lefebvre, F. and Halligudi, Shivaraj B.}
}
@article { ISI:000262657300010,
	title = {Comparative study on liquid phase alkylation of 2-methylnaphthalene with long chain olefins using different solid acid catalysts},
	journal = {Applied Catalysis A-General},
	volume = {352},
	number = {1-2},
	year = {2009},
	month = {JAN},
	pages = {74-80},
	publisher = {ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV},
	address = {PO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS},
	abstract = {<p>A comparative study has been made over a variety of solid acid catalysts, which include isopoly and heteropoly ions supported on various supports such as zirconia, titania, a large variety of zeolites and a couple of mesoporous materials for liquid phasealkylation of 2-methylnaphthalene with 1-octene.All the catalyst systems were characterized by nitrogen sorption analysis, X-ray diffraction and NH(3)-TPD. Inspite of their high acid amounts zeolites gave poor catalytic performance due to their diffusional constraints; on the other hand mesoporous materials lacked diffusional constraints but due to their low acid amounts resulted in poor conversions. lsopoly and heteropoly ions supported on zirconia and titania were found to be catalytically active for the reaction due to total surface acidity. Among them, isopolytungstate supported on zirconia exhibited the best catalytic activity and was used for further optimization of reaction conditions. Excellent conversions of all olefins (\&gt;92\%) with high selectivity of monoalkylmethylnaphthalene (\&gt;95\%) was obtained under optimized reaction conditions. The catalyst could be recycled for several times without any obvious loss of its activity. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.</p>},
	keywords = {2-Methylnaphthalene, Alkylation, Long chain olefins, Zirconia},
	issn = {0926-860X},
	doi = {10.1016/j.apcata.2008.09.032},
	author = {Lucas, Nishita and Bordoloi, Ankur and Amrute, Amol P. and Kasinathan, Palraj and Vinu, Ajayan and Bohringer, Walter and Fletcher, Jack C. Q. and Halligudi, Shivaraj B.}
}
