The set of Al-doped titania x-Al-TiO 2 (x = 0.0, 0.1, 0.3, 0.5, 0.7, 0.9, 1.1 wt% Al) has been synthetized by sol-gel method and tested in the reaction of photocatalytic degradation of phenol in aqueous suspension. XRD and Raman studies show that TiO 2 samples have mixedphase rutile-anatase crystalline structure with linear increase of anatase fraction from 0.0 wt% for 0.0-Al-TiO 2 up to 18 wt% for 1.1-Al-TiO 2 . The decrease of the particle size from ∼ 800 nm to 50 nm and the increase of specific surface area from 1.7 m 2 /g up to 28 m 2 /g with increased content of Al have been observed. The data of XRD, XPS, Raman spectroscopy and EDS