The current global mass consumption of non-renewable fossil fuels is forcing academic and industrial scientists to find alternative sustainable resources.[1] The transformation of biomass into fuels and value-added chemicals [2] could be crucial to this endeavour and has been a strong research focus in recent years. Carbohydrates, the main component of biomass, could be converted into many chemicals such as ethanol, hydroxymethylfurfural ...
[Baldwin, Jack E.; Adlington, Robert M.; Bottaro, Jeffrey C.; Jain, Ashok U.; Kolhe, Jayant N.; et al. Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, 1984 , # 16 p. 1095 - 1096]
