Catalytic transformation of cellulose into platform chemicals

• Yabushita, Mizuho

• Kobayashi, Hirokazu

• Fukuoka, Atsushi

Abstract

Conversion of biomass to renewable and valuable chemicals has attracted global interest in order to build up sustainable societies. Cellulose is the most abundant and non-food biomass; however, the low reactivity of cellulose has prevented its use in chemical industry except for the paper manufacturing. The heterogeneous catalysis for the conversion of cellulose has been expected to overcome this issue, because various types of heterogeneous catalysts can be designed and applied in a wide range of reaction conditions. Furthermore, solid catalysts are easily recovered and reused. In this review article, we show the present situation and perspective of heterogeneous catalysis for the transformation of cellulose into useful platform chemicals.

Journal

• Applied catalysis. B, Environmental

  Applied catalysis. B, Environmental 145 1-9, 2014-02

  Elsevier Science B.V.

Keywords

• Biomass
• Cellulose
• Heterogeneous catalysts
• Sugar alcohols
• Glucose

Details

• CRID: 1050845763944740480
• NII Article ID: 120005372305
• NII Book ID: AA1082551X
• HANDLE: 2115/54653
• ISSN: 09263373
• Text Lang: en
• Article Type: journal article
• Data Source:
  • IRDB
  • CiNii Articles