Issue 9, 2011
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Green Chemistry

One step catalytic conversion of cellulose to sustainable chemicals utilizing cooperative ionic liquid pairs†

Jinxing Long,a   Bin Guo,a   Xuehui Li,*a   Yanbin Jiang,a   Furong Wang,a   Shik Chi Tsang,*b   Lefu Wanga  and  Kai Man K. Yub  

* Corresponding authors

a School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Pulp & Paper Engineering State Key Laboratory of China, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, P. R. China
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b Wolfson Catalysis Centre, Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
E-mail: edman.tsang@chem.ox.ac.uk
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Abstract

A 100% conversion of cellulose to industrially useful chemicals is, for the first time, achieved in a single pot reaction by the use of cooperative ionic liquid pairs for combined dissolution and catalytic degradation of cellulose, which overcomes the long intrinsic phase problem in the conversion of biomass to chemicals.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C1GC15597K
Article type
Communication
Submitted
24 May 2011
Accepted
30 Jun 2011
First published
22 Jul 2011

Green Chem., 2011,13, 2334-2338

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One step catalytic conversion of cellulose to sustainable chemicals utilizing cooperative ionic liquid pairs

J. Long, B. Guo, X. Li, Y. Jiang, F. Wang, S. C. Tsang, L. Wang and K. M. K. Yu, Green Chem., 2011, 13, 2334 DOI: 10.1039/C1GC15597K

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