The production of future transportation fuels and chemicals requires the deployment of new
catalytic processes that transform biomass into valuable products under competitive …

Increasing demand for sustainable chemicals and fuels has pushed academia and industry
to search for alternative feedstocks replacing crude oil in traditional refineries. As a result, an …

Furfural is a promising renewable platform compound derived from lignocellulosic biomass
that can be further converted to biofuels and biochemicals. The highly functionalized …

As our high dependence on the supply of diminishing fossil fuel reserves raise great
concerns in its environmental, political and economic consequences, utilization of …

Biomass has been long exploited as an anthropogenic energy source; however, the 21st
century challenges of energy security and climate change are driving resurgence in its …

Hemicellulose is one of the main components of lignocellulose, and xylan and xylose are
polysaccharides and monosaccharides that account for a high proportion of hemicellulose …

Mono-functional catalytic materials are used for many types of chemical transformations, but
are tedious for delivering products from multiple-step reactions required for the valorization …

Furfural, a platform chemical with a bright future, is commercially obtained by acidic
processing of xylan-containing biomass in aqueous media. Ionic liquids (ILs) can be …

In recent years, substantial interest has been devoted to the conversion of biomass-derived
carbohydrates into furanic aldehydes such as furfural, 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) and 5 …

As mentioned in several recent reviews, biomass-based furfural is attracting increasing
interest as a feasible alternative for the synthesis of a wide range of non-petroleum-derived …