An object of the present invention is to provide a method capable of
producing cycloalkanol and/or cycloalkanone with a favorable selectivity
by oxidizing cycloalkane with a favorable conversion.A cycloalkanol
and/or cycloalkanone are produced by oxidizing cycloalkane with oxygen in
the presence of mesoporous silica which contains at least one metal
selected from metals of Groups 5 to 10 of the Periodic Table and which is
also subjected to a contact treatment with an organosilicon compound. The
metal is preferably at least one metal selected from the group consisting
of vanadium, chromium, manganese, iron, cobalt, ruthenium and palladium,
and the mesoporous silica is preferably MCM-41 type mesoporous silica.