Templating mesoporous silicates on surfactant ruthenium complexes: a direct approach to heterogeneous catalysts

Mesoporous silicas have been obtained by the true liquid crystal templating (TLCT) method, using a surfactant RuII complex as the template; on calcination, ruthenium-containing particles are deposited into the pores; the materials show high catalytic selectivity for the hydrogenation of hex-1-ene.