“…Catechol (1,2-dihydroxybenzene, CC) is a kind of significant raw material in commercial production, which is widely applied in the field of synthetic drugs, photographic contrast agent, cosmetics, antioxidant, dye colorant and so forth. 1,2 However, in the course of industrial production, unemployed CC released into environment with the industrial effluent can not only cause a series of problems to animals, 3 plants 4,5 and aquatic organisms, 6,7 but also extremely destroy human organism in central nervous system and respiratory system. 8,9 Moreover, CC is regarded as environmental pollutant by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the European Union (EU) due to its low degradability and long-term existence in the ecosystem, [10][11][12] and the environmental quality standard for surface water was rigorously limited to 0.005 mg l −1 in the national standard of China (GB 3838-2002).…”