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Effect of Acid Treatment on Silica-Titania Aerogel as Oxidative-Acidic Bifunctional Catalyst (with Siew Ling Lee and Chien Wei Soo), Applied Mechanics and Materials (2012)

Acid treatment using H2SO4, HCl and H3PO4 has been carried out in an attempt to...

 

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Fine-tuning the local structure and catalytic activity of titanium-amine functionalized silica in oxidation of limonene by aqueous hydrogen peroxide (with Lai Sin Yuan, Jon Efendi, and Nur Syafiqa Hazirah Razali), Catalysis Communications (2012)

Titanium-amine functionalized silica was successfully prepared by a so-called one-pot approach by using 3-aminopropyltrimethoxysilane (APTMS),...

 

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Stabilization of tropical kaolin soil with phosphoric acid and lime (with Khairul Anuar Kassim and Amin Eisazadeh), Natural Hazards (2012)

Studies on the chemically stabilized soils have shown that the effectiveness of treatment is largely...

 

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Synergistic role of Lewis and Brönsted acidities in Friedel-Crafts alkylation of resorcinol over gallium-zeolite beta (with Zainab Ramli, Jon Efendi, Aiman Najati Akmar Rahman, Sheela Chandren, and Lai Sin Yuan), Catalysis Communications (2011)

The role of Lewis and Brönsted acidities in alkylation of resorcinol is demonstrated through the...

 

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Cation exchange capacity of a quartz-rich soil in an acidic and basic environment (with Amin Eisazadeh and Khairul Anuar Kassim), Advanced Materials Research (2011)

In this research, the time-dependent changes induced in charge characteristics of phosphoric acid and lime...

 

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Characterization of phosphoric acid- and lime-stabilized tropical lateritic clay (with Amin Eisazadeh and Khairul Anuar Kassim), Environmental Earth Sciences (2011)

The effect of calcium-based stabilizers such as lime on the geotechnical properties of tropical soils...

 

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Design, Preparation and Characterization of Polystyrene Nanospheres Based-Porous Structure towards UV-Vis and Infrared Light Absorption (with Pratama Jujur Wibawa, Mohd Arif Agam, and Hashim Saim), Physics Procedia (2011)

Porous Polystyrene nanospheres (PSNs)-Cd metal thin film of about 375.72 angstrom (Ǻ) on hydrophilic silicon...

 

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Dielectric enhancement in cadmium sulfide-poly(methacrylic acid-ethylene glycol dimethacrylic acid) nanocomposite through interfacial interaction (with Eriawan Rismana and Salasiah Endud), Journal of Composite Materials (2011)

Dielectrical property on poly(methacrylic acid-ethylene glycol dimethacrylate) P(MAA-EDMA)] attached with nanosized CdS particles have been...

 

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Effect of electric field in liquid phase oxidation of benzhydrol by aqueous hydrogen peroxide (with Amelia Boon Hoo), Journal of Fundamental Sciences (2011)

Electric-field-induced oxidation of benzhydrol to benzophenone over conducting surface containing titanium dioxide has been carried...

 

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Synthesis and Characterization of Acid Modified Silica-Titania Aerogel as Oxidative-Acidic Bifunctional Catalyst (with Siew Ling Lee, Pei Wen Koh, Jamilah Mohd Ekhsan, and Soo Chien Wei), International Journal of Applied Physics and Mathematics (2011)

Acid treatment using H2SO4, HCl and H3PO4 has been carried out in an attempt to...

 

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Enhancement of Brønsted Acidity in Sulfate-Vanadium Treated Silica-Titania Aerogel as Oxidative-Acidic Bifunctional Catalyst (with Siew Ling Lee, Soo Chien Wei, and Halimaton Hamdan), International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering (2010)

Enhancement of Brønsted acidity in silica-titania aerogel was achieved by loading both sulfate and vanadium...

 

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Friedel-Crafts Alkylation of Resorcinol Over Mesoporous Alumina Loaded with Sulfuric Acid (with Sheela Chandren and Zainab Ramli), International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering (2010)

Mesoporous alumina which contains only Lewis acidity was synthesized by sol-gel method and was then...

 

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Molecular Characteristics of Phosphoric Acid Treated Soils (with Amin Eisazadeh and Khairul Anuar Kassim), World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (2010)

The expansive nature of soils containing high amounts of clay minerals can be altered through...

 

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Physicochemical characteristics of phosphoric acid stabilized bentonite (with Amin Eisazadeh and Khairul Anuar Kassim), The Electronic Journal of Geotechnical Engineering (2010)

The expansive nature of soils containing high amounts of montmorillonite mineral can be altered through...

 

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Alkylsilylated gold loaded magnesium oxide aerogel catalyst in the oxidation of styrene (with Izan Izwan Misnon and Halimaton Hamdan), Catalysis Letters (2009)

Aerogel-prepared magnesium oxide (A-MgO) was modified by attachment of gold particles. Subsequent modification of its...

 

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Hydrolyzed Octadecyltrichlorosilane Functionalized with Amino Acid as Heterogeneous Enantioselective Catalaysts (with Lim Kheng Wei and Salasiah Endud), Reaction Kinetics and Catalysis Letters (2009)

Heterogeneous asymmetric catalysts using amino acid as chiral promoter were synthesized by attachment of amino...

 

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Physical Properties and Bifunctional Catalytic Performance of Phosphate–Vanadium Impregnated Silica–Titania Aerogel (with Lee Siew Ling and Halimaton Hamdan), Catalysis Letters (2009)

The excellent catalytic performance of phosphate–vanadium impregnated silica–titania aerogel as a bifunctional oxidative and acidic...

 

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Tungsten oxides - containing titanium silicalite for liquid phase epoxidation of 1-octene with aqueous hydrogen peroxide (with Didik Prasetyoko, Hamzah Fansuri, Zainab Ramli, and Salasiah Endud), Catalysis Letters (2009)

Tungsten oxides (WO3) have been supported on the titanium silicalite (TS-1) by impregnation method. The...

 

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Characterization and Catalytic Performance of Niobic Acid Dispersed over Titanium Silicalite (with Didik Prasetyoko, Zainab Ramli, and Salasiah Endud), Advances in Materials Science and Engineering (2008)

Niobic acid, Nb2O5·nH2O, has been supported on the titanium silicalite by impregnation method. The obtained...

 

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Gold Nanoparticles Embedded on the Surface of Polyvinyl Alcohol Layer (with Sasha Md. Nasir), Journal of Fundamental Sciences (2008)

A novel method for synthesizing polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) embedded gold film is presented. Gold particles,...

 

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Reactivity and Reusability of Mesoporous Alumina Nanoparticles Modified with Sulfuric Acid and Niobic Acid in the Alkylation of Resorcinol (with Sheela Chandren and Zainab Ramli), Journal of Fundamental Sciences (2008)

With the development of large molecule hydrocarbon processes, mesoporous alumina which possesses high surface area...

 

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The Design and Synthesis of Heterogeneous Catalyst Systems for Synthesis of Useful Organic Compounds, Akta Kimia Indonesia (2007)

There are many different heterogeneous catalytic systems. Of most basic mechanistic features are well understood....

 

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Thermal Stability of Conductivity of Composite Comprising Polyaniline and MCM-41 (with Norizah Abdul Rahman, Salasiah Endud, and Lim Kheng Wei), Malaysian Polymer Journal (2007)

A composite of mesoporous silica (MCM-41) with a polyaniline (PANI) conducting polymer was synthesized by...

 

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Stannic oxide-titanium dioxide coupled semiconductor photocatalyst loaded with polyaniline for enhanced photocatalytic oxidation of 1-octene (with Izan Izwan Misnon and Lim Kheng Wei), International Journal of Photoenergy (2007)

Stannic oxide-titanium dioxide (SnO2-TiO2) coupled semiconductor photocatalyst loaded with polyaniline (PANI), a conducting polymer, possesses...

 

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Generation of Brönsted acidity in AlMCM-41 by sulphation for enhanced liquid phase tert-butylation of phenol (with Eng-Poh Ng, Ka-Lun Wong, Mohd Nazlan Mohd Muhid, and Halimaton Hamdan), Applied Catalysis A: General (2007)

AlMCM-41 mesoporous molecular sieve modified by impregnation with sulphuric acid in toluene possesses only Brönsted...

 

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On the location of different titanium sites in Ti-OMS-2 and their catalytic role in oxidation of styrene (with Fitri Hayati and Halimaton Hamdan), Catalysis Communications (2007)

Octahedral manganese oxide molecular sieve (OMS-2) modified by impregnation of TiO2 exhibits a higher catalytic...

 

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Biphasic epoxidation of 1-octene with H2O2 catalyzed by amphiphilic fluorinated Ti-loaded zirconia (with Ng Yun Hau, Izan Izwan Misnon, Mohd Nazlan Mohd Muhid, and Halimaton Hamdan), Journal of Fluorine Chemistry (2007)

A series of amphiphilic fluorinated zirconia containing titanium was prepared by titanium impregnation followed by...

 

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Development of membrane reactor for epoxidation of propylene to propylene oxide in a single step (with Sugeng Triwahyono, Aishah Abdul Jalil, Halimaton Hamdan, and Masayoshi Kobayashi), Journal-The Institution of Engineers, Malaysia (2006)

The epoxidation of propylene to propylene oxide in a heterogeneous system was studied by using...

 

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Hydrophobic fluorinated TiO2–ZrO2 as catalyst in epoxidation of 1-octene with aqueous hydrogen peroxide (with Ng Yun Hau, Izan Izwan Misnon, Mohd Nazlan Mohd Muhid, and Halimaton Hamdan), Materials Letters (2006)

A new heterogeneous oxidation catalyst was prepared by impregnation of TiO2 from titanium(IV)tetra-2-propoxide on the...

 

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Modification of titanium surface species of titania by attachment of silica nanoparticles , Materials Science and Engineering: B (2006)

Silica nanoparticles-attached titania (TiO2@SiO2) was prepared by modification of the surface of titania (TiO2) with...

 

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Bimodal pore size mesoporous MCM-48 materials prepared by post-synthesis alumination (with Lau Chin Guan and Salasiah Endud), Journal of Physical Science (2006)

Synthesis of mesoporous materials with a bimodal pore size has always been of great importance...

 

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Sulphated AlMCM-41: Mesoporous solid Brønsted acid catalyst for dibenzoylation of biphenyl (with Eng Ng Poh, Mohd Nazlan Mohd Muhid, and Halimaton Hamdan), Catalysis Today (2006)

Sulphated mesoporous solid Brønsted acid catalyst (SO4-AlMCM-41) was prepared by impregnation of sulphuric acid on...

 

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Iron-porphyrin encapsulated in poly(methacrylic acid) and mesoporous Al-MCM-41 as catalysts in the oxidation of benzene to phenol (with Helda Hamid, Salasiah Endud, Halimaton Hamdan, and Zainab Ramli), Materials Chemistry and Physics (2006)

Poly(methacrylic acid) (PMAA) and mesoporous molecular sieve Al-MCM-41 with Si/Al = 20 were used as...

 

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Characterization of humic acid from humification of oil palm empty fruit bunch fibre using Trichoderma viride (with Umi Kalsom Md. Shah, Norlea Abdul Aziz , and Ngaspan Sardan), Journal of Tropical Agriculture and Food Science (2006)

Humic acid (HA) extracted from fermentation of EFB using Trichoderma viride was characterized by using...

 

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TS-1 loaded with sulfated zirconia as bifunctional oxidative and acidic catalyst for transformation of 1-octene to 1,2-octanediol (with Didik Prasetyoko, Zainab Ramli, and Salasiah Endud), Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical (2005)

Titanium silicalite (TS-1) loaded with sulfated zirconia as bifunctional oxidative and acidic catalyst has been...

 

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Niobic Acid Dispersed on the Surface of TS-1: Acidity Study (with Didik Prasetyoko, Zainab Ramli, and Salasiah Endud), Akta Kimia Indonesia (2005)

Bifunctional oxidative and acidic catalyst was prepared by incorporation of titanium ion (Ti4+) and niobic...

 

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Preparation and characterization of bifunctional oxidative and acidic catalysts Nb2O5/TS-1 for synthesis of diols (with Didik Prasetyoko, Zainab Ramli, and Salasiah Endud), Materials Chemistry and Physics (2005)

Bifunctional oxidative and acidic catalyst was prepared by incorporation of titanium ion (Ti4+) and niobic...

 

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Effect of Loaded Alkali Metals on The Structural, Basicity and Catalytic Activity of Zeolite Beta (with Wong Kah Man and Zainab Ramli), Jurnal Teknologi C (2005)

Zeolite Beta was modified by incorporation of an alkali metal (Na, K, Cs) through wet...

 

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Structural and Superacidity Study of Bifunctional Catalyst, Sulfated-Titanium/TS-1 (with Didik Prasetyoko, Zainab Ramli, and Salasiah Endud), Malaysian Journal of Chemistry (2005)

Bifunctional oxidative and acidic catalysts are prepared in this study. The sulfated titanium silicalite is...

 

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Synthesis of CdS nanoparticles in HDTMAB/2-Propanol/Water/n-Decane Miniemulsion system (with Eriawan Rismana and Salasiah Endud), Buletin Kimia (2005)

Semiconductor CdS nanoparticles are currently under intense investigation because of their enhanced photoreactivity and photocatalytic...

 

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Titanium Doped Octahedral Manganese Oxide Hybrid Catalyst in the Oxidation of Cyclohexene (with Fitri Hayati and Halimaton Hamdan), Buletin Kimia (2005)

Octahedral manganese oxide molecular sieves (OMS-2) was doped with titanium to form hybrid catalyst (Ti-OMS-2)...

 

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Fe(III)-salen encapsulated Al-MCM-41 as a catalyst in the polymerisation of bisphenol-A (with Halimaton Hamdan, Vivin Navijanti, and Mohd Nazlan Mohd Muhid), Solid State Sciences (2005)

Fe(III)-salen complexes encapsulated in the channels of Al-MCM-41 molecular sieves were successfully synthesised in situ...

 

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Enhancement of catalytic activity of Titanosilicalite-1 - sulfated zirconia combination towards epoxidation of 1-octene with aqueous hydrogen peroxide (with Didik Prasetyoko, Zainab Ramli, and Salasiah Endud), Reaction Kinetics and Catalysis Letters (2005)

Titanosilicalite-1 (TS-1) in combination with sulfated zirconia efficiently catalyzes the epoxidation of 1-octene with aqueous...

 

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Simultaneous adsorption of a mixture of paraquat and dye by NaY zeolite covered with alkylsilane (with Amir Faizal Naidu Abdul Manan, Lim Kheng Wei, Mohd Nazlan Mohd Muhid , and Halimaton Hamdan), Journal of Hazardous Materials (2005)

The surfaces of NaY zeolite particles were modified by the alkylsilylation of n-octadecyltrichlorosilane (OTS). Two...

 

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Sulfation: a simple method to enhance the catalytic activity of TS-1 in epoxidation of 1-octene with aqueous hydrogen peroxide (with Didik Prasetyoko, Zainab Ramli, and Salasiah Endud), Catalysis Communications (2004)

Titanosilicalite (TS-1) has been successfully modified by sulfation to exhibit enhanced catalytic activity in the...

 

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Phase-boundary catalysts for acid-catalyzed reactions: the role of bimodal amphiphilic structure and location of active sites (with Shigeru Ikeda and Bunsho Ohtani), Journal of Brazilian Chemical Society (2004)

The catalytic potential of phase-boundary catalyst for acid-catalyzed reactions has been demonstrated by NaY zeolite...

 

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The Basicity and acidity of beta zeolites after ion-exchange with alkali metal cations: a physicochemical characterization (with Wong Kah Man, Abdul Rahim Yacob, and Zainab Ramli), The Basicity and Acidity of Beta Zeolites after Ion-Exchange with Alkali Metal Cations: a Physicochemical Characterization (2004)

The structure, basicity and acidity properties of the alkali metals (Na, K and Cs) exchanged...

 

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Selective dibenzoylation of biphenyl to 4,4-dibenzoylbiphenyl over H-Al-MCM-41 (with Rino Rakhmata Mukti, Salasiah Endud, and Halimaton Hamdan), Studies in Surface Science and Catalysis (2004)

Dibenzoylation of benzoyl chloride in the presence of mesoporous H-Al-MCM-41 forms the biphenyl 4,4-dibenzoylbiphenyl (DB)...

 

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Quantitative measurement of a mixture of mesophases cubic MCM-48 and hexagonal MCM-41 by 13C CP/MAS NMR (with Lau Chin Guan, Salasiah Endud, and Halimaton Hamdan), Materials Letters (2004)

The 13C CP/MAS NMR was used to quantify a mixture of cubic MCM-48 and hexagonal...

 

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Amphiphilic NaY zeolite particles loaded with niobic acid: materials with applications for catalysis in immiscible liquid-liquid system (with Shigeru Ikeda and Bunsho Ohtani), Reaction Kinetics and Catalysis Letters (2004)

The catalytic potential of catalysts for acid-catalyzed reactions has been demonstrated by NaY zeolite loaded...

 

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Effect of titanium active site location on activity of phase boundary catalyst particle for alkene epoxidation with aqueous hydrogen peroxide (with Shigeru Ikeda, Peng Wu, Takashi Tatsumi, and Bunsho Ohtani), Studies in Surface Science and Catalysis (2003)

Epoxidation of 1-octene with hydrogen peroxide at room temperature was examined using bimodal zeolite particles,...

 

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Structural distortion in MeAPO-5 molecular sieves: a 31P MAS-NMR study (with Halimaton Hamdan), Physics Journal of the Indonesian Physical Society, A5, 2003, 0117 (2003)

Solid-state magic-angle spinning (MAS) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) was used for characterization of a series...

 

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Phase-Boundary Catalysis of Alkene Epoxidation with Aqueous Hydrogen Peroxide Using Amphiphilic Zeolite Particles Loaded with Titanium Oxide (with Shigeru Ikeda and Bunsho Ohtani), Journal of Catalysis (2001)

A new heterogeneous catalytic system, phase-boundary catalysis, for epoxidation of alkene with aqueous H2O2 is...

 

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Direct Observation of Bimodal Amphiphilic Surface Structures of Zeolite Particles for a Novel Liquid-Liquid Phase Boundary Catalysis (with Shigeru Ikeda, Tetsuro Sawadaishi, Kuniharu Ijiro, Masatsugu Shimomura, and Bunsho Ohtani), Langmuir (2001)

Amphiphilic NaY zeolite particles were prepared by a partial modification of the external surface of...

 

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Direct Synthesis of NaA Zeolite from Rice Husk and Carbonaceous Rice Husk Ash, Indonesian Journal of Agricultural Sciences (2001)

Rice husk (RH) and carbonaceous rice husk ash (CRHA) have been used as source of...

 

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The ionic size of metal atoms in correlation with acidity by the conversion of cyclohexanol over MeAPO-5 (with Halimaton Hamdan), Materials Research Bulletin (2001)

The conversion of cyclohexanol was investigated over MeAPO-5 [Me = Mg, Co, Mn and Zn]....

 

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Phase-boundary catalysis: a new approach in alkene epoxidation with hydrogen peroxide by zeolite loaded with alkylsilane-covered titanium oxide (with Shigeru Ikeda and Bunsho Ohtani), Chemical Communications (2000)

An NaY zeolite, modified with partly alkylsilane-covered titanium oxide and located at the boundary between...

 

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Dehydration and dehydrogenation of cyclohexanol over AlPO4-5 based molecular sieves (with Halimaton Hamdan), Reaction Kinetics and Catalysis Letters (1999)

The role of incorporated divalent metal (Mn, Mg, Co and Zn) incorporated into the framework...

 

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Probing the active sites of aluminated mesoporous molecular sieve MCM-41 by secondary synthesis in the conversion of cyclohexanol (with Salasiah Endud and Halimaton Hamdan), Studies in Surface Science and Catalysis (1998)

The active sites of H-Al-MCM41 aluminated by secondary synthesis have been probed by the conversion...

 

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Deactivation modes and reactions over HZSM-5, AlPO4-5 and MnAPSO-5 in conversion of cyclohexanol (with Halimaton Hamdan), Buletin Kimia (1998)

Conversion of cyclohexanol has been used to investigate the deactivation modes of the HZSM-5, AlPO4-5...

 

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Amino Acids Functionalized Heterogeneous Chiral Catalyst (with Lim Kheng Wei) (2011)

Heterogeneous asymmetric catalysis remains as an exciting research field in chiral catalysis since the heterogeneous...

 

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Better (and happy) life through heterogeneous catalysis research (2011)

The purpose of this lecture is to introduce several designs of heterogeneous catalytic systems. The...

 

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Heterogenous Chemocatalysis: Catalysis by Chemical Design (2006)

The purpose of this book is to introduce several designs of heterogeneous catalytic systems. The...