“…However, the inorganic carries oen need modication to further improve their chelating ability with transition metal catalysts. Recently, more and more attentions has been paid to bio-polymeric supports, which have strong chelating ability with transition metals for the containing of numerous polar groups on the macromolecule backbone, especially carbohydrate polymers, such as starch, 22,23 cellulose, [24][25][26] alginate, 27,28 and chitosan, [29][30][31][32][33] etc. Among them, chitosan (CS), deacetylated products of chitin, is considered to be one of the most promising transition metal catalysts supports for its high chelating ability with the transition metals (containing plenty of amino-groups and hydroxyl groups on the macromolecule backbone) and easy-tailoring of processing into different forms including membranes, microspheres, and nanobers, etc.…”