Ultrastable Mesoporous Aluminosilicates by Grafting Routes.

A combination of postsynthesis grafting and hydrothermal treatment offers an excellent route for the synthesis of ultrastable mesoporous aluminosilicates with enhanced acidity and catalytic activity. The stability observed (>150 h in boiling water; 4 h at 1000 degrees C) is, for mesoporous silicates, remarkable. Unusually the hydrothermal treatment is beneficial with respect to the use of the stable aluminosilicates as solid acid catalysts.