Abstract:Benzalhydantoin sulfonic mesoporous (SBM) was gotted by MCM-41 graftting with benzyl chloride and chlorosulfonic respectively. The composition ,structure and surface physical and chemical properties of the samples were characterized by surface of elemental analysis (EDS), fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), N2 adsorption-desorption, X-ray diffraction (XRD), Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and so on. The results of EDS and organic elemental analysis shows that the grafting yield was 5.84% of C(w%) for BM (sample, MCM-41 Si-OH graftting with benzyl chloride) . Further sulfonation, S grafting ratio (w%) was up to 7.46% for SBM. The results show that, after a two-step grafting reaction, SBM still has a mesoporous structure. The BET surface area is 366.9 m2•g-1and the pore volume is 0.349 cm3•g-1. The process for synthesis of tri-n-butyl citrate using SBM as catalyst was studied. The results show that when n (acid): n (alcohol) = 1.0:9.0, w (cat) = 3%, the reaction temperature is 110 ℃, reflux time 7 h, yield was 93.22%. And the catalyst can be reused, repeated five times, the esterification rate remains at 76.33 %.