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The use of acidic task-specific ionic liquids in the formation of high surface area mesoporous silica

A. A. Pujari, Jessica J. Chadbourne, Antony J. Ward, Lorenzo Costanzo, Anthony F. Masters, Thomas Maschmeyer

New Journal of Chemistry · 2009 · 15 citations · 19 references

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The acidic ionic liquids 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium hydrogen sulfate [CnMIM]HSO4 (n = 8, 10, 12, 16) were synthesised using a one-pot method and then used as new acidic templates to generate high surface area ordered mesoporous silicas (>1000 m2 g−1) using a one-step synthetic route.

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