CATALYST FOR PHOTO-CHEMICAL REACTIONS ON BASE OF TITANIUM DIOXIDE AND METHOD OF PRODUCTION OF SUCH CATALYST

FIELD: composition and structure of composite metal semiconductor meso-porous materials; titanium-dioxide-based catalyst for photo-chemical reactions. ^ SUBSTANCE: proposed catalyst is meso-porous titanium-dioxide-based material containing crystalline phase of anatase in the amount no less than 30 mass-% and nickel in the amount no less than 2 mass-%; material has porous structure at average diameter of pores from 2 to 16 nm and specific surface no less than 70 m2/g; as catalyst of photo-chemical reaction of liberation of hydrogen from aqua-alcohol mixtures, it ensures quantum reaction yield from 0.09 to 0.13. Method of production of such catalyst includes introduction of precursor - titanium tetraalkoxyde and template of organic nature, holding reagent mixture till final molding of three-dimensional structure from it at successive stages of forming sol, then gel, separation of reaction product and treatment of this product till removal of template; process is carried out in aqua-alcohol solvent containing no more than 7 mass-% of water; at least one of ligands is introduced into solvent as template; ligand is selected from group of macro-cyclic compounds containing no less than four atoms of oxygen and/or from complexes of said macro-cyclic compounds with ions of metals selected from alkaline or alkaline-earth metals or F-metals containing lithium, potassium, sodium, rubidium, cesium, magnesium, calcium, strontium, barium, lanthanum and cerium; mixture is stirred before forming of sol maintaining its temperature not above 35°C till final molding of three-dimensional structure from reagent mixture; mixture is held in open reservoir at the same temperature at free access of water vapor; after removal of template from three-dimensional structure, mixture is first treated with nickel salt solution during period of time sufficient for withdrawal of nickel ions from solution by pores of structure, after which is it kept in hydrogen-containing medium during period of time sufficient for reduction of nickel ions in pores of structure to metallic nickel. ^ EFFECT: enhanced sorption and photo-catalytic parameters; reproducibility of catalyst properties. ^ 7 cl, 68 ex