Crystalline inorganic oxide compositions prepared by neutral templating route

An uncalcined crystalline inorganic oxide composition having a particle size of .ltoreq.400 .ANG. and a wall thickness .gtoreq.17 .ANG. having uniform framework of confined mesopores and textural mesopores prepared by a method which comprises reacting a neutral amine template wherein the amine is a primary or secondary amine and a neutral inorganic oxide precursor to form a reaction product, hydrolysing of the precursor with an aqueous solution optionally in the presence of co-solvent to form a gel, aging of the gel to form the uncalcined crystalline inorganic oxide composition, wherein the neutral amine is selected from the group consisting of

• (a) R.sub.1 R.sub.2 R.sub.3 N where at least one of R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 is selected from the group consisting of alkyl containing 6 to 22 carbon atoms and aryl containing 6 to 18 carbon atoms and remaining of R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 are selected from the group consisting of hydrogen and alkyl containing 1 to 22 carbon atoms;
• (b) R.sub.1 R.sub.2 N-X-NR.sub.4 R.sub.5 wherein at least one of the R.sub.1 and the R.sub.2 and R.sub.4 and R.sub.5 are as set forth in (a) and X is selected from the group consisting of alkyl, aryl and aralkyl having 1 to 18 carbon atoms and the remaining of R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.4 and R.sub.5 are selected from the group consisting of hydrogen and alkyl containing 1 to 22 carbon atoms;
• (c) and mixtures of (a) and (b).