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SUBMITTER: Tallarico S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6906372 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20191211 1
Cellulose is the main component of lignocellulosic biomass. Its direct chemocatalytic conversion into lactic acid (LA), a powerful biobased chemical platform, represents an important, and more easily scalable alternative to the fermentative way. In this paper, we present the selective hydrothermal conversion of cellulose and simple sugars into LA, under mild reaction conditions in presence of ErCl<sub>3</sub> grafted on the mesoporous silica (MCM-41) surface. High yields and selectivity were obt ...[more]