Chemicals, Materials, and Catalysts from Natural Renewable Lignocelluloses

“ Heterogenized Homogeneous Catalysts for Fine Chemicals Production : Materials and Processes ”

180 © 2011 Johnson Matthey doi:10.1595/147106711X581350 http://www.platinummetalsreview.com/ Edited by Pierluigi Barbaro and Francesca Liguori (Istituto di Chimica dei Composti Organo Metallici, Firenze, Italy), Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 2010, 459 pages, ISBN: 978-90-481-3695-7, £126.00, €139.95, US$189.00 (Print version); e-ISBN: 978-90-481-3694-4, doi:10.1007/978-90-481-3696-4 (On...

Chemicals from alkynes with palladium catalysts.

Materials , Chemicals and Energy from Forest Biomass

This book will explore our forests as the most readily available and renewable source of carbon as well as the building block of chemicals, plastics, and pharmaceuticals as the next 100 years gradually push consumers toward alternate sources of chemicals. Meeting these needs from trees requires that new chemistry be developed so that plant material is converted to commodity chemicals. This focu...

Renewable Chemicals: Dehydroxylation of Glycerol and Polyols

The production of renewable chemicals is gaining attention over the past few years. The natural resources from which they can be derived in a sustainable way are most abundant in sugars, cellulose and hemicellulose. These highly functionalized molecules need to be de-functionalized in order to be feedstocks for the chemical industry. A fundamentally different approach to chemistry thus becomes ...

Pyrolysis of triglyceride materials for the production of renewable fuels and chemicals.

Conversion of vegetable oils and animal fats composed predominantly of triglycerides using pyrolysis type reactions represents a promising option for the production of renewable fuels and chemicals. The purpose of this article was to collect and review literature on the thermo-chemical conversion of triglyceride based materials. The literature was divided and discussed as (1) direct thermal cra...