Catalytic performance of styrene-divinylbenzene copolymer-supported platinum catalyst of high crosslinking degree and high surface area was studied in reactions of hydrosilylation of allyl chloride, 1-octene and 1-butene. The catalyst has shown considerably greater stability of catalytic activity than classical active carbon-supported catalyst. In experiments on repeated use of catalysts, the decrease in catalytic activity for hydrosilylation of liquid double bond-containing compounds proceeding in the presence of the copolymer-supported and carbon-supported platinum was considerably smaller in the case of the former catalyst. Bimetallic Pt-Cu catalyst on polymeric support appeared to be considerably less active than monometallic catalyst. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.