Open AccessValorization of Renewable Carbon Resources for Chemicals
Author(s) -
Xi Chen,
Bin Zhang,
Yunzhu Wang,
Ning Yan
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
chimia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.387
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 2673-2424
pISSN - 0009-4293
DOI - 10.2533/chimia.2015.120
Subject(s) - renewable energy , renewable resource , fossil fuel , biochemical engineering , raw material , catalysis , carbon fibers , cellulose , business , environmental science , waste management , chemistry , materials science , organic chemistry , engineering , composite number , electrical engineering , composite material
The overuse of fossil fuels has caused an energy crisis and associated environment issues. It is desirable to utilize renewable resources for the production of chemicals. This review mainly introduces our recent work on the transformation of renewable carbon resources including the conversion of cellulose, lignin, and chitin into sustainable chemicals. Various transformation routes have been established to form value-added chemicals, and accordingly a variety of effective catalytic systems have been developed, either based on metal catalysis and/or acid-base catalysis, to enable the desired transformation.