Description |
1 online resource |
Series |
RSC green chemistry |
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RSC green chemistry series.
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Contents |
Conversion of Biomass into Sugars; Aqueous-phase Reforming of Sugar Derivatives: Challenges and Opportunities; Catalytic Hydrogenation of Sugars; Advances in Sugar-based Polymers: Xylan and its Derivatives for Surface Modification of Pulp Fibres; Recent Advances in the Synthesis of Sugar-based Surfactants; Oligosaccharides for Pharmaceutical Applications; Non-fuel Applications of Sugars in Brazil |
Summary |
Biomass-derived sugars provide a rich, renewable feedstock for a diverse range of chemicals, making them a promising and feasible source for the sustainable manufacture of a variety of valuable products. Exploring green sugar-based technologies beyond their applications in fuels, this book provides an overview of sugar-based technologies, describing their challenges and opportunities. It covers transformations of sugars into green chemicals in pharmaceuticals, biodegradable polymers and surfactants. A special chapter is dedicated to the conversion of biomass into sugars, which is a crucial step in the sustainable utilization of sugars. The book is a valuable resource for chemists and chemical engineers working to develop greener synthetic routes to chemicals and pharmaceuticals |
Notes |
Includes index |
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Online resource; title from title details screen (Royal Society of Chemistry, viewed December 14, 2015) |
Subject |
Biomass chemicals.
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Green chemistry.
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Organic chemistry.
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Sustainability.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Chemical & Biochemical.
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Biomass chemicals
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Green chemistry
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Murzin, Dmitry, 1963- editor.
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Simakova, Olga A., editor
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ISBN |
9781782622079 |
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1782622071 |
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9781523104758 |
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1523104759 |
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