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

Polyhydroxyalkanoates, or PHAs, belong to a class of biopolyesters where the
biodegradable PHA polymer is accumulated by microorganisms as intracellular granules …

Polymers are ubiquitously present in our daily life because they can meet a wide range of
needs and fields of applications. This success, based on an irresponsible linear …

5-Hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) is a platform chemical derived from C6 sugars, which can be
transformed into various important chemicals and fuels because of the presence of CO, C–O …

Abstract One pot synthesis of 2, 5‐dimethylfuran (2, 5‐DMF) from saccharides under mild
conditions is of importance for the production of biofuel and fine chemicals. However, the …

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 …

As mentioned in several recent reviews, biomass-based furfural is attracting increasing
interest as a feasible alternative for the synthesis of a wide range of non-petroleum-derived …

A series of highly crystalline, porous, zirconium-based metal–organic frameworks (Zr-MOFs)
with different ligand functionalities and porosities were applied for catalytic transfer …

Ongoing progress in synthetic biology, metabolic engineering, and catalysis continues to
produce a diverse array of advanced biofuels with complex molecular structure and …

Recently, there has been growing interest in the transformation of renewable biomass into
value‐added fuels and chemicals. The catalytic conversion of naturally abundant …