Issue 2, 2011
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Energy & Environmental Science

Rapid and highly selective conversion of biomass into value-added products in hydrothermal conditions: chemistry of acid/base-catalysed and oxidation reactions

Fangming Jin*ab  and  Heiji Enomotob  

* Corresponding authors

a State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resources Reuse, College of Environmental Science & Engineering, Tongji University, 1239 Siping Road, Shanghai, China
E-mail: fmjin@tongji.edu.cn
Fax: +86-21-65985792
Tel: +86-21-65985792

b Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Tohoku University, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Japan

Abstract

An overview of recent advances in research on selective conversion of carbohydrates into products with hydrothermal chemistry is given. Conversion methods tend to use acid- or base-catalysed reactions and oxidation reactions. Conversion products that can be selectively produced include acetic acid, formic acid, lactic acid, levulinic acid, 5-hydroxymethyl-2-furaldehyde (HMF) and 2-furaldehyde (2-FA). Future conversion paths and possible new products that can be formed with hydrothermal chemistry include aldol/reverse condensation, dehydration, benzilic acid rearrangement, keto-enol tautomerization, Lobry de Bruyn–Alberda van Ekenstein transformation and oxidation reactions.

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Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C004268D
Article type
Perspective
Submitted
15 Mar 2010
Accepted
25 Oct 2010
First published
22 Nov 2010

Energy Environ. Sci., 2011,4, 382-397

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Rapid and highly selective conversion of biomass into value-added products in hydrothermal conditions: chemistry of acid/base-catalysed and oxidation reactions

F. Jin and H. Enomoto, Energy Environ. Sci., 2011, 4, 382 DOI: 10.1039/C004268D

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