The involvement of green solvents in the biomass pre-treatment

The current challenges and demands for lignocellulosic feedstock processing in the frame of the biorefinery concept lead to seek novel and innovative technologies that fulfill green and sustainable valorisation of lignocellulosic biomass. Ionic liquids and carbon dioxide can contribute to this aim be acting as more sustainable solvents, catalysts and reagents [1-6]. The use of both solvents helps to accomplish the integrated cascade approach of each fraction of biomass valorisation to produce diverse pivot compounds such as oligosaccharides, monosaccharides, furans, organic acids and polyphenolics.

The current work will demonstrate the example of such cascade approach and routes to produce wide range of potential building blocks from biomass.

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