“…A great advantage (compared with other hydrophilic moieties) is the possibility to bind the phosphonated ligand to an inert oxide surface (e.g., Al 2 O 3 ) [8], onto activated carbon surface [9] or into a layered framework, e.g., zirconium phosphonate [10,12] or zirconium phosphite/phosphonate hybrid material [13]. Such supported catalysts have been successfully tested in Rhcatalysed alkene hydroformylation [12,14], Rh-catalysed methanol carbonylation [9,15], Ru-catalysed asymmetric b-keto ester hydrogenation [4,11] or Heck reaction [13]. Several tests were also performed in organic solvents under homogeneous conditions (e.g., Pt/Sn-catalysed alkene hydroformylation [11], Rh-catalysed methanol carbonylation [16] and Rh-catalysed styrene hydroformylation [17]).…”