Lignin is an abundant biopolymer with a high carbon content and high aromaticity. Despite
its potential as a raw material for the fuel and chemical industries, lignin remains the most …

Biomass is an important feedstock for the renewable production of fuels, chemicals, and
energy. As of 2005, over 3% of the total energy consumption in the United States was supplied …

Medicinal inorganic chemistry can exploit the unique properties of metal ions for the design
of new drugs. This has, for instance, led to the clinical application of chemotherapeutic …

Neither the routes through which humin byproducts are formed, nor their molecular structure
have yet been unequivocally established. A better understanding of the formation and …

Detailed insight into the structure and composition of industrial (technical) lignins is needed
to devise efficient thermal, bio- or chemocatalytic valorisation strategies. Six such technical …

Iron-containing enzymes are one of Nature’s main means of effecting key biological transformations.
The mononuclear non-heme iron oxygenases and oxidases have received the most …

The development of new and improved processes for the synthesis of bio‐based chemicals
is one of the scientific challenges of our time. These new discoveries are not only important …

With dwindling reserves of fossil feedstock as a resource for chemicals production, the
fraction of chemicals and energy supplied by alternative, renewable resources, such as lignin, …

Saying a (bio) mass for the future: The shale gas revolution will strongly impact the availability
of a number of key building blocks of the chemical industry, in particular butadiene and …

In the present work, extensive hydrodeoxygenation (HDO) studies with a commercial sulfided
CoMo/Al 2 O 3 catalyst were performed on a library of lignin model compounds at 50bar …