Front Cover: Organocatalytic Upgrading of Biomass Derived Building Blocks (Eur. J. Org. Chem. 22/2023)

Catalytic upgrading of biomass-derived methyl ketones to liquid transportation fuel precursors by an organocatalytic approach.

A highly efficient water-tolerant, solid-base catalyst for the self-condensation of biomass-derived methyl ketones to jet-diesel fuel precursors was developed by grafting site-isolated secondary amines on silica-alumina supports. It is shown that apart from the nature and density of amine groups and the spatial separation of the acidic and basic sites, the acidity of the support material plays ...

Evaluation of Updating Methods in Building Blocks Dataset

With the increasing use of spatial data in daily life, the production of this data from diverse information sources with different precision and scales has grown widely. Generating new data requires a great deal of time and money. Therefore, one solution is to reduce costs is to update the old data at different scales using new data (produced on a similar scale). One approach to updating data i...

Development and substrate specificity screening of an in vivo biosensor for the detection of biomass derived aromatic chemical building blocks

Valorization of biomass to create sustainable bio-synthetic routes to chemicals, plastics, monomers, waxes, fuel and energy is a central tenet of the move towards a circular bio-economy. An area of particular importance is the ability to valorize low value waste/by-products such as lignin. Degradation of lignin can release potential chemical building blocks that can be used as substrates for th...

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The integrated Rule Oriented Data Management System (iRODS) is a policy-driven data management system that is starting to be used by projects with large data volume requirements that require a highly available system. In this paper we describe an approach to provide a Highly Availability load-balanced iRODS System (HAIRS). We also describe the advantages and disadvantages of the approach and fu...

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