Boreskov Institute of Catalysis SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia

PL-3CATALYTIC TRANSFORMATIONS FOR PRODUCTION OFBIOFUELS, SPECIALTY CHEMICALS AND PHARMACEUTICALSFROM WOODY BIOMASSDmitry Yu. MurzinÅbo Akademi University, Turku, FinlandBiomass as a source of renewable energy and chemicals is attracting more andmore attention. Woody biomass utilization in particular can lead, besides a range ofsuch biobased products as lumber, paper and pulp, furniture, housing componentsand ethanol, also to chemicals and fuels.Chemical treatment of wood can have several targets. One option isdelignification of the biomass leading to cellulose and some residual hemicelluloses,which are further applied in production of paper or board, or the derivatives ofcellulose. Thermal (or catalytic) treatment of biomass, e.g. thermal or catalyticpyrolysis, is a route to bio-based synthesis gas and biofuels. Depolymerization ofwood components (cellulose, hemicelluloses and lignin), which can be done with anaid of heterogeneous catalysts, results in the formation of low-molecular-masscomponents (sugars or sugar alcohols, phenols, furfural, various aromatic andaliphatic hydrocarbons, etc.), e.g. unique building blocks for further chemicalsynthesis.In addition wood biomass contains many valuable raw materials for producingfine and specialty chemicals, such as fatty acids, terpenoids and polyphenols, i.e.stilbenes, lignans and tannins. The catalytic derivatization methods for thesechemical compounds will be reviewed in the lecture.7