Cascaded engineered catalysis for cleaner and greener production of value added chemicals from biomass

Biomass conversion technologies consist of sugar platform (biochemical/fermentation), extraction and chemical conversion (syn gas) and it provides challenging opportunities. Biorefineries must adopt the Green Chemistry principles. The development of lignocellulose treatments will be key to unlocking a major sugar source for biological conversion into industrial products. Defunctionalization may involve oxidation and hydrogenation apart from other important chemical reactions using acids and bases. Catalysis is the most pivotal principle of Green Chemistry which inherently aims at reduction of waste, both of material and energy. The active sites on the catalyst can be tailored to give desired products from reactants while suppressing, either totally or to the maximum extent, any generation of by-products. Chemical and allied industry is characterized by several processes involving complex (series and/or parallel) reaction networks in which the selectivity of the desired product is influenced by a number of parameters...