“…In a heterogeneous system, the support is expected to increase the active surface area, stability and environmental acceptability of the supported catalysts . Various kinds of supports have been reported, including alumina (Chary et al, 2003), modified polystyrene (Gupta & Sutar, 2008b), zeolites (Chidambaram et al, 2006), silica (SalavatiNiasari et al, 2007b) and montmorillonite (Cao et al, 2014;Kameyama et al, 2006;Li et al, 2013). Among these, montmorillonite, has been extensively investigated in recent years due to its large effective surface area, economic feasibility and low toxicity (Kianfar et al, 2014a).…”