Reactions for the Production of Levulinic Acid and for Its Transformations into Value-Added Chemicals
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2019) | Viewed by 8497
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Interests: nanostructured materials; heterogeneous catalysts; sustainable processes; mesoporous materials; green applications
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Interests: heterogeneous catalysis; metal nanoparticles; oxidation reactions; industrial processes; biomass valorization
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The challenge for chemists today is to develop sustainable processes to transform biomasses to chemicals and fuels. In particular, one of the goals for the future is biomass conversion to value-added chemicals by heterogeneous, homogeneous and enzymatic catalysts.
Levulinic acid (LA) is one of the twelve platform chemicals proposed by the US Department of Energy. In fact, LA is a versatile building block for the synthesis of various organic compounds that can be used for example as fuel additives, herbicides, pharmaceutical, flavor, precursors in the polymer industries. Therefore, production of LA has become one of the key steps in biomass conversion. LA can be produced from the dehydration of hexose, from dehydration of xylose as well as from carbohydrates such as starch or cellulose and also directly from raw biomasses.
The aim of this Special Issue is to present a current overview of recent developments in the field of the still open challenges for both LA production and LA applications.
All researchers working in the field are cordially invited to contribute original research papers or reviews to this Special Issue of Molecules.
Prof. Michela Signoretto
Dr. Federica Menegazzo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Levulinic acid
- Biomass valorization
- Heterogeneous, homogeneous, enzymatic catalysis
- Renewables
- Platform chemicals
- Biorefinery
