The ever increasing industrial production of commodity and specialty chemicals inexorably
depletes the finite primary fossil resources available on Earth. The forecast of population …

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 …

Furfural and 5-hydroxymethylfurfural stand out as bridges connecting biomass raw materials
to the biorefinery industry. Their reductive transformations by hydroconversion are key …

The production of future transportation fuels and chemicals requires the deployment of new
catalytic processes that transform biomass into valuable products under competitive …

Transformation of biomass and CO 2 into renewable value-added chemicals and fuels has
been identified as a promising strategy to fulfill high energy demands, lower greenhouse …

Furfural has been considered as one of the most promising platform molecules directly
derived from biomass. The hydrogenation of furfural is one of the most versatile reactions to …

MoO3 and Mo2C have emerged as remarkable catalysts for the selective
hydrodeoxygenation (HDO) of a wide range of oxygenates at low temperatures (that is,≤ …

Selective activation of chemical bonds in multifunctional oxygenates on solid catalysts is a
crucial challenge for sustainable biomass upgrading. Molybdenum carbides and nitrides …

Lignocellulosic biomass provides an attractive source of renewable carbon that can be
sustainably converted into chemicals and fuels. Hydrodeoxygenation (HDO) processes have …

The increasing demand for sustainable energy resources has initiated the investigation of
biomass conversion over a wide range of catalysts. Among those, transition metal carbides …