Table of Contents
Preface, Joseph J. Bozell and Martin Patel
1. Feedstocks for the Future: Using Technology Development as a Guide to Product Identification, Joseph J. Bozell
2. Sustainable Development and Renewable Feedstocks for Chemical Industry, Jurgen O. Metzger and Ursula Bierman
3. Starting at the Front End, Detlef Wilke and Yuri Gleba
4. Biomass Derivatives: A Sustainable Source of Chemicals, Leo E. Manzer
5. Catalytic Transformations of Carbohydrates, Pierre Gazellor, Michele Besson, Laurent Djakovitch, Alain Perrad, Catherine Pinel, and Alexander Sorokin
6. Novel Polymeric Materials from Soybean Oils, Dejan D. Andjelkovic, Fengkui Li and Richard C. Larock
7. Cyclic voltammetry as a potential predictive method for supported nanocrystalline gold catalysts for oxidation in aqueous media, Graham J. Hutchings, Silvio Carrettin, Paul McMorn, Patrick Jenkins, Gary A. Attard, Peter Johnson, Ken Griffin and Christopher J. Kiely
8. How biobased products contribute to the establishment of sustainable, phthalate free, plasticisers and coatings, J. van Haveren, E.A. Oostveenm F. Micciche, J.G.J. Weijnen
9. Carbon Dioxide as a Renewable C1 Feedstock: Synthesis and Characterization of Polycarbonates from the Alternating Copolymerization of Epoxides and C02, Scott D. Allen, Christopher M. Byrne and Geoffrey W. Coates
10. Electrocatalytic Oxidation of Methanol, Corey R. Anthony and Lisa McElwee-White
11. Improved Catalytic Deoxygenation of Vicinal Diols and Application to Alditols, Kevin F. Gableand Brian Ross
12. Iron TAML Catalysts in the Pulp and Paper Industry, Colin P. Horowitz, Terrence J. Collins, Jonathan Spatz, Hayden J. Smith, L. James Wright, Trevor R. Stuthridge, Kathryn G. Wingate, and Kim McGrouther
13. New Heterogeneous Catalysts Derived from Chitosan for Clean Technology Applications, Duncan J. Macquarrie, Jeff J.E. Hardy, Sandrine Hubert, Alexa J. Devaux, Amrco Bandini, Rafael Luque Alvarez, Marie Chabrel
14. Genetic Engineering of S. Cerevisiae for Pentose Utilization, Peter Richard, Ritva Verho, John Londesborough and Merja Penttila
15 Microbial Formation of Polydroxyalkanoates from Forestry-Based Substrates. Thomas M. Keenan, Stuart W. Tanenbaum, James P. Makas
16. Hemicellulose From Biodelignified Wood: A Feedstock for Renewable Materials and Chemicals, Arthur J. Stipanovic, Thomas E. Amidon, Gary M. Schott, Vincent Barber and Misty K. Blowers
17. Life Cycle Assessment of Energy-based Impacts of a Biobased Process for Producing 1,3-Propanediol, Robert P. Anex and Alison L. Ogletree
18. Ecological Evaluation of Processes based on By-products or Waste from Agriculture: Life Cycle Assessment of Biodiesel from Tallow and Used Vegetable Oil, Anneliese Niederl, Michael Narodoslawsky
19. Polyhydroxalkanoate Production in Crops, Gregory M. Bohlmann
20. The Biofine Technology, Stephen W. Fitzpatrick
21. The Development of Biopolymer-based Nanostructured Materials: Plastics, Gels, IPNs and Nanofoams, J.J.G. van Soest
22. Polyols: An Alternative Sugar Platform for Conversion of Biomass to Fuels and Chemicals, J. Michael Robinson, Caroline E. Burgess, Melissa A. Bently, Chris D. Brasher, Bruce O. Horne, Danny M. Lillard, José M. Macias, Laura D. Marrufo, Hari D. Madal, Samuel C. Mills, Kevin D. O'Hara, Justin T. Pon, Annette F. Raigoza, Ernesto M. Sanchex, José S.Villarreal, and Qian Xian
23. Optimization of the Process Conditions for the Extraction of Heteropolysaccharides from Birch (Betula pendula), Peter Karlsson, Johannes P. Roubroeks, Wolfgang G. Glasser, and Paul Gatenholm
24. Protein-based Plastics and Composites as Smart Green Materials, Stéphane Guilbert, Marie-Hélène Morel, Nathalie Gontard, Bernard Cuq