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

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 …

Mono-functional catalytic materials are used for many types of chemical transformations, but
are tedious for delivering products from multiple-step reactions required for the valorization …

An entirely new route for highly selective preparation of cyclopentanone from furfural is
described. It has been found that furfural dissolved in water is converted to cyclopentanone …

The liquid-phase transfer hydrogenation of furfural on Cu-based catalysts was studied.
Catalysts were prepared by incipient wetness impregnation (Cu/SiO 2) and co-precipitation …

Catalytic transfer hydrogenation (CTH) of bio-derived furfural (FF) to furfuryl alcohol (FFA)
was performed using the physically mixed CuO-Pd/C as catalyst and formic acid (FA) as …

An up-to-date and two volume overview of recent developments in the field of
chemocatalytic and enzymatic processes for the transformation of renewable material into …

Tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol (THFAL), as a green industrial solvent, can be obtained directly
from biomass-derived furfural with 100% conversion and 100% yield over a hydroxyapatite …

Transfer-hydrogenation (TH) has attracted great attention because it does not require the
use of high pressure H 2. In this work, we report a facile ultrasound-assisted impregnation …