Cover Picture: Towards the Efficient, Total Glycan Utilization of Biomass (ChemSusChem 5/2009)

✍ Scribed by Mark Mascal; Edward B. Nikitin

• Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 904 KB
• Volume: 2
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1864-5631
• DOI: 10.1002/cssc.200990017

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The cover picture shows common sources of waste biomass (agricultural, municipal, forestry) being processed into a mixture of substituted furans in the biomass digester described by M. Mascal and E. B. Nikitin in their Communication on page 423. The method is remarkably simple and is based on a biphasic reactor incorporating a solvent extraction loop. Isolated product yields from raw biomass approach 90 % of the theoretical, from which can be derived new generation “furanoline” biofuels such as 5‐ethoxymethylfurfural and 5‐methylfurfural, as well as the value‐added products furfural and levulinic acid (picture courtesy of Gorkem Gunbas, Department of Chemistry, UC Davis).magnified image