Catalysis Letters, Vol.88, No.3-4, 163-167, 2003
The extremely high specificity of N-methyldicyclohexylamine for the production of the large-pore microporous AFI material
We describe a highly efficient synthesis of microporous aluminophosphate AlPO4-5 and its heteroatom-substituted variants, using N-methyldicyclohexylamine as a structure-directing agent that, in addition, does not result in the formation of any other microporous phase over the widest range of composition, temperature and pH conditions ever reported.