“…It also quickly became a subject of study for their application in basic or bi-functional catalysis, in particular in the synthesis of heavy alcohols with the Guerbet reaction (Tsuchida et al, 2008), the Knoevenagel condensation reaction (Sebti et al, 2002), the Michael addition (Gruselle et al, 2011), or for dehydration (Lan and Zhang, 2015), oxidation (Zhao et al, 2013) or dehydrogenation reactions (Hara et al, 2003). HAPs have the general chemical formula Ca 5 (PO 4 ) 3 OH, but are generally described by the Ca 10 (PO 4 ) 6 (OH) 2 formula, which actually represents two molecules contained in the crystalline pattern (crystalline symmetry, space group 6/m) (Charlton et al, 2006). The composition of the hydroxyapatites is extremely variable, because not only they are rarely stoichiometric (Ca/P = 1.67), but also because each constitutive element can be, to a certain extent, substituted without losing the crystalline structure (Ben Osman, 2014): Ca 2+ ions can be replaced by mono and divalent cations such as Sr 2+ , Ba + , Pb 2+ , Mg 2+ , Zn 2+ , and Na + .…”