TAO Furong1,2, WANG Danjun1,2, SONG Huanling1, CHOU Lingjun1*
(1. State Key Laboratory for Oxo Synthesis and Selective Oxidation, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Lanzhou 730000, China; 2. Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China)
Abstract: Energy crisis is a huge challenge that people will be faced with, the exploitation of biological energy, such as carbohydrate, has become a hot point in the present world. Glucose, fructose and xylose, as the simplest carbohydrates, have been the ideal materials for the preparation of important platform chemicals. This paper introduces the advance in the choice of catalysts and dehydration mechanism of monosaccharide; also, some suggestions on future research and development are presented.
Key words: glucose; fructose; xylose; platform chemicals
E-mail: ljchou@licp.cas.cn
Journal of Molecular Catalysis, Vol. 25, Issue 5, 2011, 467-475
