Polymers without petrochemicals: sustainable routes to conventional monomers

G Hayes, M Laurel, D MacKinnon, T Zhao… - Chemical …, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
Access to a wide range of plastic materials has been rationalized by the increased demand
from growing populations and the development of high-throughput production systems …

Furfural–a versatile, biomass-derived platform chemical for the production of renewable chemicals

A Jaswal, PP Singh, T Mondal - Green Chemistry, 2022‏ - pubs.rsc.org
For years, fossil fuels have been the predominant feedstock for the production of chemicals,
resulting in their overexploitation and widespread environmental degradation, prompting a …

Electrocatalytic refinery of biomass-based 5-hydroxymethylfurfural to fine chemicals

Y Gao, L Ge, H Xu, K Davey, Y Zheng, SZ Qiao - ACS Catalysis, 2023‏ - ACS Publications
Because of depleting fossil-fuel reserves, together with the impacts of climate change,
alternative eco-friendly production of high-value chemicals and renewables is needed …

Recent advances on heterogeneous non-noble metal catalysts toward selective hydrogenation reactions

Y Ren, Y Yang, M Wei - ACS Catalysis, 2023‏ - ACS Publications
Selective hydrogenation reactions provide a pivotal and promising strategy for upgrading
substances with unsaturated functional groups, in which supported non-noble metal …

2-Methylfuran (MF) as a potential biofuel: A thorough review on the production pathway from biomass, combustion progress, and application in engines

AT Hoang - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Currently, the development of alternative and green energy sources has been being strongly
pushed aiming to recoup the lack of fossil energy, to meet the ever-increasing demand of …

Continuous Flow Upgrading of Selected C2–C6 Platform Chemicals Derived from Biomass

R Gerardy, DP Debecker, J Estager, P Luis… - Chemical …, 2020‏ - ACS Publications
The ever increasing industrial production of commodity and specialty chemicals inexorably
depletes the finite primary fossil resources available on Earth. The forecast of population …

How catalysts and experimental conditions determine the selective hydroconversion of furfural and 5-hydroxymethylfurfural

S Chen, R Wojcieszak, F Dumeignil, E Marceau… - Chemical …, 2018‏ - ACS Publications
Furfural and 5-hydroxymethylfurfural stand out as bridges connecting biomass raw materials
to the biorefinery industry. Their reductive transformations by hydroconversion are key …

Cell wall hemicellulose for sustainable industrial utilization

MF Qaseem, H Shaheen, AM Wu - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Despite a steady decline in fossil resources in past few decades, demand for petroleum-
based chemicals and polymers has increased sharply. As the dead end of the petroleum …

Earth-abundant 3d-transition-metal catalysts for lignocellulosic biomass conversion

Y Feng, S Long, X Tang, Y Sun, R Luque… - Chemical Society …, 2021‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Transformation of biomass to chemicals and fuels is a long-term goal in both science and
industry. However, high cost is one of the major obstacles to the industrialization of this …

Furfural: a renewable and versatile platform molecule for the synthesis of chemicals and fuels

R Mariscal, P Maireles-Torres, M Ojeda… - Energy & …, 2016‏ - pubs.rsc.org
The production of future transportation fuels and chemicals requires the deployment of new
catalytic processes that transform biomass into valuable products under competitive …