Highlights•Furfural and 5-(hydroxymethyl) furfural offer rare opportunities for designing novel
biobased products and will play a central role in tomorrow's chemistry.•The renewability …

Abstract γ‐valerolactone (GVL) is an important intermediate chemical with a wide range of
applications as fuel, fuel additive and as a green solvent which has received a great deal of …

In recent years, 2, 5-dihydroxymethylfuran (DHMF), which can be produced by the selective
hydrogenation of biomass-derived 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF), has attracted great …

A series of highly crystalline, porous, zirconium-based metal–organic frameworks (Zr-MOFs)
with different ligand functionalities and porosities were applied for catalytic transfer …

Monometallic Pt catalysts supported on mesoporous (MP) ZrO2 were prepared and utilized
as catalysts in the aqueous-phase upgrading of lignocellulosic biomass-derived levulinic …

A set of Ru/C catalysts prepared using a commercial active carbon and a series of carbon
materials derived from it (treatment in N 2 flow, at 300, 600 or 900° C that selectively …

Microwave (MW)-assisted levulinic acid (LA) hydrogenation has been performed over two
gold catalysts (commercial 1 wt% Au/TiO 2 by AUROlite™ and 2.5 wt% Au/ZrO 2, prepared …

Microwave‐assisted organic synthesis (MAOS) is based on the efficient heat transfer
achieved by dielectric heating, which, in turn, is mainly dependent on the ability of the …

The magnetically heated hydrotreatment of levulinic acid, furfural and hydroxymethylfurfural
over a composite Ru-based nanocatalyst in a batch reactor was investigated. The …

Herein, we report the synthesis of stable and efficient novel Ru-embedded C-Al 2 O 3
catalyst for the hydrogenation of levulinic acid (LA) to γ-valerolactone (GVL) in water under …