“…HT-like compounds, otherwise referred as layered double hydroxides (LDHs), are a class of layered materials receiving an increasing attention in recent years owing to their diverse applications, especially in catalysis (Centi and Perathoner, 2008;Debecker et al, 2009;Kannan, 2006;Li and Duan, 2006;Sels et al, 2001 ) have been synthesized in the last 10 years and employed into the phenol hydroxylation by hydrogen peroxide in liquid phase (Dubey et al, 2002;Kannan et al, 2005;Rives et al, 2001;Wang et al, 2009;Zhang et al, 2008;Zhu et al, 1998). However, Turco et al (2004Turco et al ( , 2007 showed that during the preparation, besides the HT phase, also a certain amount of other phases such as paratacamite formed due to the Jahn-Teller distortion caused by the insertion of Cu…”