Abstract This Doctoral Thesis presents a study on the synthesis and characterization of materials based on tungsten bronze partially substituted with transition metals and / or alkaline metals, with hexagonal bronze structure (HTB), to be used as catalysts in the aerobic transformation of methanol to dimethyl ether and/or formaldehyde. Active and selective binary W-X-O catalysts (X = Ti, V or Mo) for methanol transformation, are obtained by hydrothermal synthesis and subsequent thermal treatment in nitrogen at temperatures between 400 and 600 °C. The nature of the active sites (acids and / or redox, depending on the composition of the catalyst) determines the distribution of products (dimethyl ether and/or formaldehyde, respectively). Subsequently, the synthesis and characterization of ternary W-V-M catalysts (M = Mo, Nb or alkali metal) have been studied in order to improve the selectivity to formaldehyde and dimethyl ether. The three types of ternary catalysts studied improve the formation of formaldehyde, although following different strategies: i) increasing the amount of redox sites (W-V-Mo); Ii) decreasing the strength of the acid sites (W-V-Nb) or iii) decreasing the density of acid sites (W-V-alkaline). A second aspect is related to the nature of the vanadium sites, since the presence of a second promoter limits both the amount of vanadium in the material and the oxidation state of vanadium species, which would explain the better selectivity to partial oxidation products obtained by the ternary catalysts. Finally, a comparative study has been carried out between aerobic and anaerobic conditions using some of the most representative catalysts. A study by infrared spectroscopy of adsorbed methanol (in the presence or absence of oxygen) can explain the reaction mechanism (acid and/or redox) of these materials, as well as the factors that influence the deactivation of the catalyst when working under anaerobic conditions. TESIS