Ordered mesoporous phenolic resins: highly versatile and ultra stable support materials.

Ordered mesoporous phenolic resins and carbons - an advanced class of ultra-stable mesoporous materials - offer potential applications in the field of catalysis, electrodes and adsorbents. This review gives an extensive overview of the main principles and the recent progress made in the synthesis of these innovative materials using the soft-template method. Furthermore, the versatility towards functionalization and the incorporation of hetero-atoms in the organic framework of the mesoporous resins and carbons are considered.

The remarkable catalytic activity of the saturated metal organic framework V-MIL-47 in the cyclohexene oxidation.

The remarkable catalytic activity of the saturated metal organic framework MIL-47 in the epoxidation of cyclohexene is elucidated by means of both experimental results and theoretical calculations.

Supported vanadium oxide in heterogeneous catalysis: elucidating the structure-activity relationship with spectroscopy.

In order to design the next generation of catalysts, it is crucial that the insights of researchers in heterogeneous catalysis, materials design and spectroscopy are merged. Since the scientific community started to realize that the molecular pattern of a catalyst at room temperature and in vacuum does by no means reflect the actual structure of the catalytic species under working conditions, new spectroscopic techniques have been developed to study the catalytic species "while doing the job" or in Latin, "operando". In this contribution, we give an overview of recent developments in-at first sight-the simple case of supported VO(x) species.

Ultra stable ordered mesoporous phenol/formaldehyde polymers as a heterogeneous support for vanadium oxide.

Ordered mesoporous phenol/formaldehyde polymers are presented as an ultra stable heterogeneous support for vanadium oxide.