Designed synthesis of TS-1 crystals with controllable b-oriented length.

TS-1 crystals with controllable b-oriented length (sheet-like morphology, TS-1-S; chain-like morphology, TS-1-C) have been rationally synthesized from addition of organic additives (urea and fluorinated surfactant of FC-4) in the starting titanosilicate gels, and catalytic and adsorptive measurements show that TS-1-S samples are very active in Beckmann rearrangement of cyclohexanone oxime, whereas TS-1-C samples are selective in adsorption for para-xylene.