Solvents define pivotal properties for chemical processing and chemical reactions, and can
be as game-changing as catalysts. A solvent can be the key to a good chemical process …

Carboxylic acids have gained more and more importance as versatile and renewable
starting materials for the formation of platform molecules or high-value chemicals. Many …

C–H activation has emerged as a transformative tool in molecular synthesis, but until
recently oxidative C–H activations have largely involved the use of stoichiometric amounts of …

The visible light promoted cross-dehydrogenative coupling reaction has emerged as an
excellent strategy for the direct formation of C–C/C–heteroatom bonds from simple …

Hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) and levulinic acid (LA) are two of the most promising chemicals
derived from biomass owing to their convertibility into a large number of chemicals having …

A great fraction of worldwide energy carriers and material products come from fossil fuel
refinery. Because of the on-going price increase of fossil resources, their uncertain …

Within the past decade, green chemistry has attained the status of a major scientific
discipline. 1, 2 The investigation and application of green chemistry principles has led to the …

A series of microwave biochars derived from wheat straw in the presence of a granulated
activated carbon (GAC) catalyst, using a range of microwave conditions, were produced …

In the past few years, using microwave energy to heat and drive chemical reactions has
become increasingly popular in the medicinal chemistry community. First described 20 years …

In this paper we report a kinetic model for the dehydration of xylose to furfural in a biphasic
batch reactor with microwave heating. There are four key steps in our kinetic model:(1) …