Designing sites in heterogeneous catalysis: are we reaching selectivities competitive with those of homogeneous catalysts?

F Zaera - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
A critical review of different prominent nanotechnologies adapted to catalysis is provided,
with focus on how they contribute to the improvement of selectivity in heterogeneous …

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 …

Chemical transformations of biomass-derived C6-furanic platform chemicals for sustainable energy research, materials science, and synthetic building blocks

FA Kucherov, LV Romashov, KI Galkin… - ACS sustainable …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Recent advances in the area of biomass-derived C6-furanic platform chemicals for
sustainable biomass processing are analyzed focusing on chemical reactions important for …

Recent advances in catalytic oxidation of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural

D Zhao, T Su, Y Wang, RS Varma, C Len - Molecular Catalysis, 2020 - Elsevier
Hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) has been considered as one of the most promising versatile
biomass based platform molecules. This review discusses recent advances in catalytic …

Hydrogen peroxide as an oxidant in biomass-to-chemical processes of industrial interest

SP Teong, X Li, Y Zhang - Green Chemistry, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Production of chemicals and fuels from renewable biomass is a hot topic of current research.
Theoretically, most of the fuels and chemicals from petroleum resources can be synthesised …

Heterogeneous catalytic conversion of sugars into 2, 5-furandicarboxylic acid

ADK Deshan, L Atanda, L Moghaddam… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Achieving the goal of living in a sustainable and greener society, will need the chemical
industry to move away from petroleum-based refineries to bio-refineries. This aim can be …

Insight into the hydrogenation of pure and crude HMF to furan diols using Ru/C as catalyst

S Fulignati, C Antonetti, D Licursi, M Pieraccioni… - Applied Catalysis A …, 2019 - Elsevier
hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) is one of the most important renewable platform-chemicals, a
very valuable precursor for the synthesis of bio-fuels and bio-products. In this work, the …

Recent advances in bifunctional catalysts for the Fischer–Tropsch process: one-stage production of liquid hydrocarbons from syngas

DX Martínez-Vargas, L Sandoval-Rangel… - Industrial & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Fischer–Tropsch (FT) synthesis is an important reaction for the alternative production of high-
quality liquid fuels, which promote sustainable development by enabling economical …

Iron based catalysts in biomass processing

H Du, F Deng, RR Kommalapati… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2020 - Elsevier
The interest in the use of non-noble metal catalysis is quite relevant to biomass processing
due to costs, environmental concerns and the substantial scale of these operations. The aim …

Selective Aerobic Oxidation of 5‐Hydroxymethylfurfural to 2,5‐Diformylfuran or 2‐Formyl‐5‐furancarboxylic Acid in Water by using MgO⋅CeO2 Mixed Oxides as …

M Ventura, F Lobefaro, E de Giglio, M Distaso… - …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Mixed oxides based on MgO⋅ CeO2 were used as efficient catalysts in the aerobic oxidation
of 5‐hydroxymethylfurfural (5‐HMF) to afford, with very high selectivity, either 2, 5 …