Chemicals and Materials from Renewable Resources

Content: Chemical and materials from renewable resources / Joseph J. Bozell --
Polyhydroxyalkanoates: the answer to sustainable polymer production / Tillman U. Gerngross --
Vision for renewable resources / James S. Mclaren --
Synthesis of đ-aminolevulinic acid / Luc Moens --
Levulinate esters from biomass wastes / Edwin S. Olson ... [et al.] --
Carbohydrate diacids: potential as commercial chemicals and hydrophobic polyamide precursors / D.E. Kiely --
Levoglucosenone: a chiral building block with a new perspective / Zbigniew J. Witczak --
New oligomers and polymers bearing furan moieties / Claire Coutterez ... [et al.] --
Furfural and levoglucosan production from deciduous wood and agricultural wasters / Janis Gravitis ... [et al.] --
Pretreatment processes to increase pyrolytic yield of levoglucosan from herbaceous feedstocks / Robert C. Brown, Desmond Radlein, and Jan Piskorz --
3-Dehydroshikimic acid: a building block for chemical synthesis from renewable feedstocks / K.M. Draths ... [et al.] --
Synthesis and properties of polymers derived from substituted lactic acids / Mao Yin, Tara L. Simmons, and Gregory L. Baker --
Integrated process for the production of chemicals from biologically derived succinic acid / Nhuan Nghiem ... [et al.] --
Use of model compounds to study the reactivity and cross-linking of natural phenolics / Stephen S. Kelley ... [et al.] --
Thermoplastic polyesters from steam exploded wood / Wolfgang G. Glasser and Rajesh K. Jain.