Abstract
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.
| Original language | Undefined/Unknown |
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| Publisher | Royal Society of Chemistry |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-78262-207-9 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-78262-113-3 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2016 |
| MoE publication type | C2 Edited work |