Production of Fuels and Chemicals from Biomass: Condensation Reactions and Beyond

Chem

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 32-58

  Wu, Lipeng ^a   Moteki, Takahiko ^b   Gokhale, Amit A ^c   Flaherty, David W ^b   Toste, F Dean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c BASF CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

SDG7: Affordable and clean energy

Indexed keywords

EID: 85006790684     PISSN: 24519294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chempr.2016.05.002     Document Type: Review

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