In this article we show a variety of biomass product transformations through catalysis by both
bulk and supported heteropolycompounds. The biomass sources considered include …

Alkoxylation of α− pinene, β− pinene and limonene was performed in the presence of SBA-
15-occluded tungstophosphoric acid (HPW). The HPW was immobilised in SBA-15 using the …

Pseudoionone (PI) is a well-known and widely used precursor for ionones, which have been
substantially applied in flavor, fragrance and pharmaceutical industry. The phase behavior …

In this paper, glycerol esterification with acetic acid (AA) was studied on several solid acid
catalysts: Al2O3, Al-MCM-41, HPA/SiO2, HBEA, Amberlyst 15 and Amberlyst 36 with the aim …

The methoxylation of α-pinene was studied using heteropolyacids immobilized on silica as
catalysts, at 60° C, being the α-terpinyl methyl ether the main product. Tungstophosphoric …

Molybdenum oxide modified montmorillonite K10 clay (Mt-K10) was developed to
synthesize ionone isomers via cyclization of pseudoionone. A fixed bed flow reactor was …

The liquid-phase cyclization of pseudoionone to ionones (α, β and γ isomers) was studied
on silica-supported heteropolyacid (HPA) catalysts containing between 18.8 and 58.5 …

The effect of catalyst acid site nature on the reaction kinetics of the liquid-phase conversion
of dihydroxyacetone with ethanol was investigated using Brønsted and Lewis acid solids …

The effect of Brønsted acid site strength on the liquid-phase conversion of pseudoionone to
ionone isomers (α-, β-and γ-ionone) was studied on resin Amberlyst 35W, silica-supported …

The kinetics and mechanism of coke formation and catalyst deactivation during the synthesis
of cresols from phenol methylation were investigated on SiO 2–Al 2 O 3, tungstophosphoric …