The present disclosure is directed to processing for preparing crystalline pure-silica and heteroatom-substituted LTA frameworks in fluoride media using a simple organic structure-directing agent (OSDA), having a structure of Formula (I):

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where substituents R.sup.1 to R.sup.9 are defined herein. Aluminosilicate LTA is an active catalyst for the methanol to olefins reaction with higher product selectivities to butenes as well as C5 and C6 products than the commercialized catalysts. Titanosilicate LTA is an active catalyst for the epoxidation of allyl alcohol using aqueous H.sub.2O.sub.2.

Improved alkylation catalysts, alkylation methods, and methods of making alkylation catalysts are described. The alkylation method comprises reaction over a solid acid, zeolite-based catalyst and can be conducted for relatively long periods at steady state conditions. The alkylation catalyst comprises a crystalline zeolite structure, a Si/Al molar ratio of 20 or less, less than 0.5 weight percent alkali metals, and further having a characteristic catalyst life property. Some catalysts may contain rare earth elements in the range of 10 to 35 wt %. One method of making a catalyst includes a calcination step following exchange of the rare earth element(s) conducted at a temperature of at least 575 C. to stabilize the resulting structure followed by an deammoniation treatment. An improved method of deammoniation uses low temperature oxidation.

A molecular sieve confined noble metal catalyst for CO-SCR denitrification, a preparation method and an application thereof are provided. The catalyst includes a molecular sieve carrier and Ir metal nanoclusters loaded in the molecular sieve carrier through confined encapsulation. The preparation method includes the following steps: mixing a first metal precursor solution with a first ligand to obtain a first mixed solution; mixing a second metal precursor solution with a second ligand to obtain a second mixed solution; mixing a silicon source, an aluminum source, an alkali and a solvent to obtain a molecular sieve precursor solution; mixing the molecular sieve precursor solution with the first mixed solution, then adding the second mixed solution for hydrothermal crystallization reaction, and then centrifugally washing, drying and calcining to obtain the catalyst.