Max Planck Institute für Kolloid und Grenzflächenforschung Abteilung für Kollide; Prof. M. Antonietti Mesoporous organosilica materials with amine functions: surface characteristics and chirality Dissertation zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades "doctor rerum naturalium" (Dr. rer. nat.) in der Wissenschaftsdisziplin "Chemie" eingereicht an der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Potsdam von Rebecca Voß Potsdam, den 23.03.2005 Table of Contents 1 Introduction and motivation 2 2 Introduction to PMO materials and the sol-gel process 5 2.1 History of PMO materials 2.2 Formation of mesoporous materials by the surfactant–templated sol-gel method 7 3 Analytical methods 113.1 Adsorption behavior of PMO materials113.2 Isothermal titration calorimetry 174 MO materials produced from silsesquioxane surfactant precursors 21 4.1 Introduction21 4.2 Non-chiral “all-in-one” method234.3 MOs for chiral separation354.4 Long chain amine precursors for mesoporous materials: A MO with non-glassy walls 58 5 Surface properties of the pore walls of MO materials with different organic groups 73 5.1 Introduction 73 5.2 The influence of different organic groups on the hydrophilicity in MO materials 76 5.3 The influence of the surfactant on a series of MO materials prepared from different precursors81 5.