1. HYDROTHERMAL SYNTHESIS AND CRYSTALLIZATION OF ZEOLITES
Typical zeolite synthesis
NaAl(OH)4(aq) + Na2SiO3(aq) + NaOH(aq), 25oC, condensation-polymerization, Na(H2O)n+ template 
Naa(AlO2)b(SiO2)c.NaOH.H2O(gel)  oC, hydrothermal crystallization of amorphous gel
Nax(AlO2)x(SiO2)y.zH2O(crystals)

2. HYDROTHERMAL SYNTHESIS AND CRYSTALLIZATION OF ZEOLITES
Nax(AlO2)x(SiO2)y.zH2O(crystals)
Extraframework charge-balancing cations, templates, ion-exchangeable
Framework Al(III)O4 and Si(IV)O4 tetrahedral primary building-blocks
(AlO2)- and SiO2 stoichiometry for building blocks as bridging O
Occluded water, removed by oC vacuum thermal dehydration
Organic cationic templates, quaternary alkylammonium, structure-directing, space-filling, charge-balancing, discovery of new structures

3. ZEOLITE BUILDING UNITS
SHORTHAND NOTATION
Mq+
Cation binding site in six ring resembles crown ether-cation complex
Corner sharing SiO4/AlO4 tetrahedra
Six ring shorthand notation

4. BUILDING-BLOCK APPROACH TO ZEOLITE SYNTHESIS, STRUCTURES AND PROPERTIES
Primary tetrahedral units, AlO2-, SiO2, PO2+ and so forth, combined to give open-framework and framework charge, balanced by extraframework cations
Existence of primary and secondary units in a synthesis mixture including:
4R, 6R, 8R, D4R, D6R, 5-1, cubooctahedron

8. ZEOLITE POST MODIFICATION FOR CONTROLLING PROPERTIES OF ZEOLITES
Tailoring channel, cage, window dimensions, adsorbents, gas separation, purification
Tuning Brnsted acidity, hydrocarbon cracking
Ion exchange capacity, Lewis acid-base character, water softening, detergents
Size-shape selective catalysis, separations, sensing -reactant, product, transition state selectivity

9. ZEOLITE POST MODIFICATION FOR CONTROLLING PROPERTIES OF ZEOLITES
Host-guest inclusion, atoms, ions, molecules, radicals, organometallics, coordination compounds, clusters, polymers (conducting, insulating), nanoreaction chambers
Advanced zeolite devices, electronic, optical, magnetic applications
Entry to nanoscale materials, size tunable properties, QSEs

12. SHAPE SELECTIVE CATALYSIS - REACTANT, PRODUCT, TRANSITION STATE SELECTIVITY

13. ALKYLATION OF TOLUENE BY METHANOL - SHAPE SELECTIVE CATALYTIC PRODUCTION OF p-XYLENE
Used for manufacture of terephthalic acid for production of polyester fibers
Snug fit can diffuse through channels

14. Shape slective dehydration of normal and iso-butanols to butenes over calcium ion exchanged zeolite A and zeolite Y

15. DIAMOND LATTICE OF 1.3 nm SPHERICAL SUPERCAGES IN ZEOLITE Y

16. SIMPLIFIED NOTATION FOR ZEOLITE ION EXCHANGE, BRNSTED ACID SITE FORMATION AND DEALUMINATION TO HIGH SILICA ZEOLITES

18. The changing face of zeolite science and technology - pore and channel dimensions way beyond 1 nm - periodic table of compositions

19. LAYER-BY-LAYER GROWTH OF ZEOLITE THIN FILMS FOR PERMSELECTIVE MEMBRANES

21. ORGANICS ORGANIZING INORGANICS ABIOGENIC

22. ARCHITECTURAL CONTROL - TEMPLATE DIRECTED TRANSFORMATION OF BUILDING BLOCKS TO OPEN FRAMEWORK SOLIDS
Ge4S104- adamantanoid building block
Mq+ links building blocks via S binding and structure directed by Me4N+ template

23. LEARNING FROM NATURE - TEMPLATING INORGANICS WITH SINGLE MOLECULES AND SUPRAMOLECULAR ASSEMBLIES