“…The conversion of cyclohexene has commonly been accepted as a suitable reaction for testing the catalytic behavior of various materials (Cheng and Rajagopalan, 1989;Navio et al, 1996;Radwan and Selim, 1996;Bunjes et al, 1997;Fasi et al, 1997;Navio et al, 1998;Hunka et al, 1999). We have applied this process to characterize the Al-MCM-41 material modified by coking (Rozwadowski et al, 2000), determine the probable mechanism of the respective conversion reaction, describe the active sites, and find a correlation between the postulated mechanism and the nature of the sites (Rozwadowski et al, 2001a(Rozwadowski et al, , 2001b. Polar (water) and nonpolar (benzene, nitrogen) compounds were chosen as probe molecules for adsorption to learn more about both the lyophilic properties of the examined mesoporous solids and the adsorption process (Rozwadowski et al, 2001c).…”