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

Ionic liquid with acidic properties is an important branch in the wide ionic liquid field and the
aim of this article is to cover all aspects of these acidic ionic liquids, especially focusing on …

Furfural is a promising renewable platform compound derived from lignocellulosic biomass
that can be further converted to biofuels and biochemicals. The highly functionalized …

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 …

Furfural and 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) are important platform chemicals in biorefinery.
Reduction of furfural or HMF with H2 over heterogeneous catalysts is the simplest way to …

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

Levulinic acid (LA) is one of the most important biomass-derived platform molecules and can
be produced from both C5 and C6 carbohydrates via tandem dehydration and hydrolysis …

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 …

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) …

Recently, valorization of lignocellulosic biomass, the most abundantly available biomass
raw material on the Earth, to biofuels and chemicals has attracted great attention worldwide …