“…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). In addition, it can render it possible for oxidation reactions to be performed on an industrial scale using montmorillonite as support (Masui et al, 2014;Parida et al, 2011;Salavati-Niasari, 2007).…”