Junfeng Feng, Le Zhang, Jianchun Jiang, Chungyun Hse, Todd F. Shupe and Hui Pan
Green Chem., 2019,21, 4951-4957
DOI:
10.1039/C9GC02365H,
Communication
Dimethoxymethane/methanol was creatively used as matching-solvents for one-pot synergistic conversion of bamboo into value-added chemicals. C6 and C5 sugars in cellulose and hemicellulose were simultaneously transformed into methyl levulinate with a higher yield (48.68%). The overall reaction pathways for directional liquefaction of biomass into methyl levulinate with matching-solvents were put forward.