Catalytic conversion of renewable biomass to “green” chemicals and fuel additives has been
extensively investigated in the past few decades. Interests on two top platform intermediates …

Over the last century, the world has become increasingly dependent on oil as its main
source of chemicals and energy. Driven largely by the strong economic growth of India and …

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 …

Interest in utilizing biorenewable feedstocks to produce fuels and chemicals has risen
greatly in the past decade due to the economic, political and environmental concerns …

The search for alternative cleaner, safer, and environmentally friendly technologies is one of
the priorities in chemistry. With this objective, the reduction of wastes together with the use of …

Conversion of carbohydrates to 5-(hydroxymethyl) furfural (HMF) may provide a step forward
toward achieving a renewable biomass-based chemicals and fuels platform. Recently, we …

Within the present contribution we highlight the feasibility of standard refinery units for the
production of biofuels from different biomass-derived feedstock. The energy densification of …

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 …

In this Critical Review, we discuss how carbohydrates can be transformed into a variety of
chemicals through heterogeneous catalysis. We focus particularly on oxidation, reduction …

As long as the molecular complexity increases, the number of chemical transformations will
increase in parallel, becoming a highly demanding synthetic process in terms of time and …