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

Levulinic acid (LA) is one of the most promising biomass-derived platform chemicals owing
to its wider convertibility to a large number of commodity chemicals. Numerous LA …

Levulinic acid is a sustainable platform molecule that can be upgraded to valuable
chemicals and fuel additives. This article focuses on the catalytic upgrading of levulinic acid …

Alkyl levulinates are biobased chemicals having a strong potential to be used in various
applications, substituting current chemicals produced from petro-chemical routes. Dedicated …

The importance of ethyl levulinate (EL) as a fuel additive and a potential biomass-derived
platform molecule is noteworthy. EL is obtained from the esterification of levulinic acid (LA) …

Levulinate esters are unique potential value added energy-chemicals which has
significantly attracted remarkable attention of global researchers due to its potential …

Biomass conversion into useful chemicals, materials and fuels emerged as a promising
alternative toward replacing the current production of most of these commodities and …

As a natural renewable resource, the catalytic conversion of lignocellulosic biomass is
considered to be an important strategy to alleviate the tremendous dependence on fossil …

Mesoporous silica SBA-15 has been functionalized with sulfonic acid to create highly
powerful heterogeneous solid acid catalysts (SBA-Pr-SO 3 H). The catalyst can be easily …

A series of arylsulfonic acid functionalized hollow mesoporous carbon spheres (ArSO 3 H-
HMCSs) with controllable ArSO 3 H loadings (1.8 and 3.2 wt%) and inner diameters (120 …