“…These include mixed oxides such as silica-alumina [1], silica and alumina-supported boria [2,3], silica-supported tantalum oxide [4], and titania-zirconia-supported boria [5] and a variety of zeolites like Y [6,7], ZSM-5 [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15], ZSM-11 [16], ferrierite [17], TS-1 [18], and SAPO-11 [19]. The solid acid catalysts, such as silica-supported and alumina-supported boria, the highly siliceous ZSM-5 [12,14], [B]-ZSM-5 [10,13], TS-1 [11], and SAPO-11 [19] have been reported to be relatively selective for lactam. However, the catalytic lifetime of the solid catalysts is short and problems to solve in the vapor phase Beckmann rearrangement still remain.…”