This work reports on the study to determine the
best synthesis conditions for the preparation of CAL-1, asilicoaluminophosphate with a cha
bazite-like structure, prepared from a lamellar aluminophosphate, ALPO-
ntu (herein called ALPO-kanemite), and using hexamethyleneimine (HMI) as the structure directing agent(SDA). These studies showed that optimum reaction conditions to o
btain CAL-1 depend on the concentrationof silicon desired in the structure. For low silicon concentrations, SiO
2/Al
2O
3 ![](/images/entities/le.gif)
0.4, no set of adequateconditions was found; the samples prepared were always contaminated with the starting lamellar materials.At SiO
2/Al
2O
3 molar ratios of 0.8 and 1.2, crystalline samples were o
btained after 24 h. For siliconconcentrations still larger, an optimum set of reaction conditions could not
be determined. The
best samplewith SiO
2/Al
2O
3 = 1.6 in the gel was o
btained with HMI/Al
2O
3 = 1.5 only after 48 h of reaction time, andeven then, the crystallinity of the sample thus prepared was poor. The com
bination of
29Si magic-angle spinningNMR and in situ infrared spectroscopy indicated that, at CAL-1 samples with the lower amount of silicon(
Si = 0.21), protons are found either at the
borders of silica patches/islands or inside the aluminosilicatedomains. Characterization showed that HMI was always accompanied
by the
n-
butylammonium cation, theSDA for the ALPO-kanemite, and showed that larger amounts of HMI led to the contamination of the samples.A mechanism involving the full dissolution of ALPO-kanemite to serve as the reactant for the formation ofCAL-1 would not explain the different characteristics of this material in relation to SAPO-34, a structurallysimilar microporous molecular sieve o
btained
by hydrothermal synthesis of a gel precursor. Therefore, asmall range, molecular level rearrangement of the lamella of the ALPO-kanemite,
brought up
by the silicon,is proposed to explain the formation of this material.