Green Furanics after the 5-(Hydroxymethyl)furfural Bottleneck: Carbon-Efficient Transformations of Biomass into Molecular Complexity, Functional Materials and Circular Chemical Platforms
Furanicmolecules obtained by dehydration and upgrading of carbohydrates have become a central chemical language for translating renewable biomass into fuels, polymers, solvents, ionic liquids, pharmaceuticals, adsorbents and aromatic building blocks. Yet the field has reached a stage at which the word 'platform' is no...