Mesoporous silica, which shows well-defined pore systems, tunable pore diameters (2-30 nm), narrow pore size distributions and high surface areas (>600 m(2) g(-1)), is frequently modified using different methodologies (including in situ and post-synthetic strategies) to introduce various chemical functionalities useful in applications like catalysis, separation, drug delivery, and sensing. This contribution aims to provide a critical overview of the various strategies to incorporate chemical functionalities in mesoporous silica highlighting the advantages of the in situ methods based on the bottom-up construction of mesoporous silica containing various chemical functionalities in its structure.
Surfactant-assisted co-condensation of an emissive tetranuclear alkynyl-phosphine copper cluster with TEOS affords a hydrothermally stable blue-emitter mesoporous hybrid metal complex-silica material.
Incorporation of Chemical Functionalities in the Framework of Mesoporous Silica -[99 refs.]. -(LINARES, N.; SERRANO, E.; RICO, M.; BALU, A. M.; LOSADA, E.; LUQUE, R.; GARCIA-MARTINEZ*, J.; Chem. Commun. (Cambridge) 47 (2011) 32, 9024-9035, http://dx.
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