“…Therefore, one of the challenges in the oligomerization of butenes, in order to get high-octane gasoline, is the development of catalysts with high selectivity to C 8 -olefins, avoiding the formation of heavier olefinic fractions (C þ 12 ). Among the catalysts reported for this reaction, besides phosphoric acid on silica, we find: Ziegler-Natta-based catalysts (Reffinger and Hoffman, 1990), zeolites (Villegas et al, 2007;Nkosi et al, 1997), benzyl sulfonic acid on silica (Saus and Schmid, 1985), mica montmorillonite (Vogel et al, 1990), titanium oxide (Chellappa et al, 2001;Mantilla et al, 2004), zirconium oxide (Busca et al, 1989;Lewis and Kydd, 1991), and sulfated zirconia (Mantilla et al, 2005). In the present work seeking highly selective catalysts, the oligomerization of isobutene was studied on W 2 O 3 =Al 2 O 3 and NiO-W 2 O 3 =Al 2 O 3 catalysts, since W 2 O 3 has been reported as an oxide showing important acid properties.…”