Nano reactions

Recently, nanoporous materials have emerged as important and efficient heterogeneous catalysts for organic transformations due to their excellent textural characteristics, including high surface area, large pore volume, uniform pore size distribution, and simplicity in workup recyclability. The pore diameters are chosen to control the access of molecules to the catalytic reaction sites located inside the porous cavities. Only the molecules of specific sizes and chemical properties are selected and guided to the reaction centers, where they are efficiently transformed to the desired products.