Abstract Furans are an important class of compounds that can be thermochemical or enzymatically produced from biomass. Despite their importance little is known about the thermal decomposition furans with oxygenated substituents. In this work, influence -CH3, -CH2OH and -CHO functional groups on molecular radical chemistry studied a combined quantum chemical experimental approach using 2-furfury...

Renewable and low-cost lignocellulosic wastes have attractive applications in bioethanol production. The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is the most widely used ethanol-producing microbe; however, its fermentation temperature (30-35°C) is not optimum (40-50°C) for enzymatic hydrolysis in the simultaneous saccharification and fermentation (SSF) process. In this study, we successfully performed an...

To produce lignocellulosic biofuels economically, the complete release of monomers from the plant cell wall components, cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin, through pre-treatment and hydrolysis (both enzymatic and chemical), and the efficient utilization of these monomers as carbon sources, is crucial. In addition, the identification and development of robust microbial biofuel production strai...

Bamboo is a potential lignocellulosic biomass for the production of bioethanol because of its high cellulose and hemicelluloses content. In this research, ethanol organosolv pretreatment with dilute sulfuric acid as the catalyst was studied in order to enhance enzymatic saccharification of moso bamboo. The addition of 2% (w/w bamboo) dilute sulfuric acid in 75% ethanol had a particularly strong...

The main sensory contribution of each post-fermentation production stage of muscat wine distillates can be tracked by following the concentration of just 1 corresponding chemical marker. Matching sample clusters of sensory and chemical data by using principal components analysis (PCA) revealed potential chemical markers. The data used in this study correspond to 12 sensory attributes that showe...

Prothrin, a synthetic pyrethroid insecticide, was synthesized from the biomass-derived platform chemical 5-(chloromethyl)furfural in six steps and overall 65% yield. Two structural analogues of prothrin were also prepared following the same synthetic approach. Preliminary testing of these furan-based pyrethroids against the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti indicates promising insecticidal ac...

BACKGROUND The thermophilic anaerobe Clostridium thermocellum is a candidate consolidated bioprocessing (CBP) biocatalyst for cellulosic ethanol production. It is capable of both cellulose solubilization and its fermentation to produce lignocellulosic ethanol. Intolerance to stresses routinely encountered during industrial fermentations may hinder the commercial development of this organism. A ...

Furfural comes from lignocellulosic biomass that, together with its derived products, has many useful applications in several industries. is usually obtained via pentose dehydration using a biphasic reactor to extract furfural situ reaction medium. However, the conventional solvents used so far, mainly toluene and methyl isobutyl ketone (MIBK), are harmful health environment. Therefore, hydroph...

Abstract Steam explosion breaks down the polymeric matrix and enables recovery of valuable compounds from lignocellulosic feedstock. In steam process, biomass is treated with high-pressure which subsequently generates large quantities a condensed aqueous liquid (process effluent) filtered (filtrate) that contain furfural, 5-hydroxymethylfurfural, 5-methylfurfural, methanol, acetic acid as major...