Fatemeh Nouroozi - Department of Chemistry, University of Alzahra, Vanak, Tehran, Iran
faezeh farzaneh - Department of Chemistry, University of Alzahra, Vanak, Tehran, Iran
minoo khosroshahi - Department of Chemistry, University of Alzahra, Vanak, Tehran, Iran

It was found that immobilized CoCl2 within nanoreactors of Si-MCM-48 catalyzes the oxidation of 1- octene, styrene, cyclohexene, norbornene, trans-stilbene and trans-2-hexene-1-ol with 35 to 95% conversion and 75 to 100% selectivity to the corresponding epoxides.

Si-MCM-48, CoCl2, alkenes, epoxidation