Table of Contents:
  • 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 [and others]
  • 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 [and others]
  • Furfural and levoglucosan production from deciduous wood and agricultural wasters / Janis Gravitis [and others]
  • 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 [and others]
  • 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 [and others]
  • Use of model compounds to study the reactivity and cross-linking of natural phenolics / Stephen S. Kelley [and others]
  • Thermoplastic polyesters from steam exploded wood / Wolfgang G. Glasser and Rajesh K. Jain.