As a versatile and valuable intermediate, furfuryl alcohol (FOL) has been widely used in manufacturing resins, vitamin C, perfumes, lubricants, plasticizers, fuel additives, biofuels, other furan-based chemicals. This work developed an efficient hybrid strategy for the valorization of lignocellulosic biomass to FOL. Corncob (75 g/L) was catalyzed with heterogenous catalyst Sn-SSXR (2 wt%) gener...

The limited reserves and well-known disadvantages of using fossil energy sources have increased the need for appropriate renewable substitutes in production various chemicals materials. Biomass has been shown to be worthy attention since it can converted biofuels value-added relatively easily. design biomass valorisation process requires knowledge on thermodynamic behaviour biomass-derived comp...

Green, inexpensive, and robust copper-based heterogeneous catalysts achieve 100 % conversion and 99 % selectivity in the conversion of furfural to furfuryl alcohol when using cyclopentyl-methyl ether as green solvent and microwave reactors at low H2 pressures and mild temperatures. The utilization of pressurized microwave reactors produces a 3-4 fold increase in conversion and an unexpected enh...

Deoxygadusol (DG) and structurally related mycosporine-like amino acids, i.e. mycosporine glycine (MG) and mycosporine taurine (MT), were isolated from phytoplankton Prorocentrum micans and studied for the reactivity toward singlet oxygen. These water-soluble compounds with a cyclohexenone chromophore were all shown to be highly effective in quenching singlet oxygen (O2), with the efficiencies ...