Chapter 1: Biomass and the green chemistry principles
1.1 Introduction to the 12 green chemistry principles
1.2 How biomass can be inserted in green chemistry
1.3 Bioeconomy, biorefineries, renewable chemistry and sustainability
Chapter 2: Saccharide biomass for biofuels, biomaterials and chemicals 2.1 Introduction
2.2 Global production and distribution data
2.3 Chemical comp
osition 2.4 Chemical structures and properties
2.5 Reactions and products
Chapter 3: Oleaginous biomass for biofuels, biomaterials and chemicals
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Global production and distribution data
3.3 Chemical composition
3.4 Chemical structures and properties 3.5 Reaction
s and products
Chapter 4: Starch biomass for biofuels, biomaterials and chemicals
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Global production and distribution data 4.3 Chemical composition
4.4 Chemical structures and properties
4.5 Reactions and products
Chapter 5: Lignocellulosic biomass for energy, biofuels, biomaterials and chemicals
5.1 Introduction &nbs
p; 5.2 Global production and distribution data 5.3 Chemical composition
5.4 Chemical structures and properties
5.5 Reactions and products
Chapter 6: Conversion process - a general vision
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Chemo-catalytic routes
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nbsp; 6.2.1 Homogeneous catalysis 6.2.2 Heterogeneous catalysis 6.2.3 Enzymatic catalysis
6.3 Biotechnological routes
6.3.1 Fermentative processes
6.3.2 Synthetic biology 6.4 Thermochemical routes
6.4.1 Gasification to syngas
6.4.2 Pyrolysis (fast and slow)
About the Author: Prof. Dr. Sílvio Vaz Junior holds a BSc degree in Chemistry, a MSc degree in Physical Chemistry and a PhD degree in Analytical Chemistry from University of São Paulo, Brazil. He was director and partner of two private analytical laboratories related to environmental analysis technologies. Since 2010, he is a research scientist at the state-owned Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) working on the development of renewable chemicals from biomass and analytical chemistry applied to bioenergy and biomass chemistry. He is a member of IUPAC and has published articles and books related to renewable chemistry and analytical chemistry.
