Oil palm biomass (OPB) represents major portion of the lignocellulosic waste in Malaysia
that can be converted into bio-oil. This review aims to provide important insights in OPB …

Ketonization of (biomass) carboxylic acids is increasingly showing its potential as upgrading
strategy to renewable fuels and chemicals. Due to the growing amount of recent studies, an …

Reducibility is an essential characteristic of oxide catalysts in oxidation reactions following
the Mars–van Krevelen mechanism. A typical descriptor of the reducibility of an oxide is the …

Lignocellulosic biomass is the most abundant organic carbon source and has received a
great deal of interest as renewable and sustainable feedstock for the production of potential …

Selective C–O activation of multifunctional molecules is essential for many important
chemical processes. Although reducible metal oxides are active and selective towards …

Carboxylic acids play a fundamental role in the transformation of biomass into liquid fuels
and other useful chemicals. In order to reduce the O/C content of biofuels, carboxylic acids …

Metal oxides have structurally complex surfaces on which a variety of adsorption site types
can occur, including cation sites, anion sites, oxygen vacancy sites, and Brønsted acid sites …

The scope of this work is to study at atomistic level the mechanism of hydrogen spillover
promoted by metal particles on oxide surfaces. By means of Density Functional Theory …

Ketonization of carboxylic acids removes O-atoms and forms new CC bonds, thus providing
routes from sustainable carbon feedstocks to fuels and chemicals. The elementary steps …

The ketonization of various renewable biomass-derived oxygenated feedstocks such as
carboxylic acids, aldehydes, alcohols, and esters is presented. As most previous …