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Sustainable pathways to chemicals and fuels from lignocellulose via catalytic cleavage and coupling reactions
Sun, Zhuohua
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Sustainable Pathways to Chemicals and Fuels from Lignocellulose
via Catalytic Cleavage and Coupling Reactions
Zhuohua Sun
1. A good catalyst should do the right thing at the right time in a right way.
2. I will never say a catalytic system working for 3 days with 2.89% yield by using 50 wt.% catalyst is a “highly efficient system”. (ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2013, 1, 1493−1497) 3. It would be good to know the big difference of the natural chemical variation between birch from coastal China and birch from inland United States. (Catal. Sci. Technol., 2015, 5, 3242–3245 and Energy Environ. Sci., 2013, 6,994–1007)
4. It’s astonishing that the guidelines to prepare the manuscript figures are longer than the manuscript itself.
5. There’s no such thing as waste in a chemical process, only stuff in the wrong place. (Chapter 1)
6. The best separation method is no separation. (Chapter 2)
7. Multiply analytical techniques are always necessary in order to analyze any reaction related to lignocellulose, usually due to the complexity of the product mixtures, occasionally because you don't believe the reaction mixture is as simple as it seems. (Chapter 2)
8. Cyclopentanone is a very appealing coupling partner. (Chapter 4)
9. Before my PhD, I have never imaged to spend 6 days for analyzing the products from a 6 hours reaction. (Chapter 7, Figure 7.2)
10. A good university should have a good website that we don’t need to spend a whole day to find every little thing.
