The hydrodeoxygenation of bioderived furans into alkanes

…, FD Waldie, R Wu, M Schlaf, A Louis III, JC Gordon

Index: Sutton, Andrew D.; Waldie, Fraser D.; Wu, Ruilian; Schlaf, Marcel; 'Pete'Silks, Louis A.; Gordon, John C. Nature Chemistry, 2013 , vol. 5, # 5 p. 428 - 432

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Abstract

The conversion of biomass into fuels and chemical feedstocks is one part of a drive to reduce the world's dependence on crude oil. For transportation fuels in particular, wholesale replacement of a fuel is logistically problematic, not least because of the infrastructure that is already in place. Here, we describe the catalytic defunctionalization of a series of biomass- derived molecules to provide linear alkanes suitable for use as transportation fuels. These ...