<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Rode, C. V.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Garade, Ajit C.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Chikate, Rajeev C.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Solid acid catalysts: modification of acid sites and effect on activity and selectivity tuning in various reactions</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Catalysis Surveys from Asia</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Acidity tuning</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Catalytic cleavage</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hydroxyalkylation</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Intramolecular rearrangement</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">solid acid catalysts</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2009</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">SEP</style></date></pub-dates></dates><number><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">3</style></number><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS</style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">233 SPRING ST, NEW YORK, NY 10013 USA</style></pub-location><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">13</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">205-220</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;The effects of acidity and variation in concentration of acid sites of dodecatungstophosphoric acid (DTP), supported DTP and montmorillonite-K catalysts were studied for various organic reactions such as the hydroxyalkylation of phenols to bisphenols, intramolecular rearrangement of benzyl phenyl ether (BPE) to 2-benzyl phenol (2-BP) and selective cleavage of tert-butyldimethylsilyl (TBDMS) ether into the corresponding alcohol. Both dodecatungstophosphoric acid (DTP) impregnated on silica (SiO(2)) and montmorillonite catalysts showed the highest catalyst activity with 90-95% selectivity to bisphenol for the hydroxyalkylation of phenols to give bisphenol. Temperature Programmed Desorption (TPD) of ammonia and activity results of various catalysts showed that an appropriate combination of both strong and weak acidic sites in the catalyst was highly desirable for high bisphenol selectivity. A 10% DTP/SiO(2) catalyst was found to be highly selective for the cleavage of TBDMS ether into the corresponding alcohol at room temperature giving a high TON of 9.5 x 10(5) even after the 4th recycle. DTP was also found to be a promising solid acid catalyst for the intramolecular rearrangement of BPE giving 2-BP.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">3</style></issue><custom3><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Foreign</style></custom3><custom4><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2.432</style></custom4></record></records></xml>