Lignocellulose, especially agricultural and forestry waste, harbors great potential as renewable carbon feedstock for the production of useful chemicals.1,2 However, in order to accomplish the economically feasible conversion of this resource to usable products, a number of challenges need to be tackled. Among these challenges are poor solubility, complexity of the starting material and derived product streams, the presence of side reactions especially at elevated temperatures, and the existence of several types of robust chemical bonds (especially in the lignin fraction) in the structure that make selective chemical degradation difficult. 1 This talk will summarize our recent efforts towards developing new catalytic approaches, which address the challenges listed above either by using heterogeneous catalyst2 of unique reactivity or simple homogeneous catalytic approaches that rely on the stabilization of formed reaction intermediates that channel product streams towards desired compositions. 3,4,5

Novel strategies for the catalytic conversion of lignocellulose

253rd National Meeting (2017)

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