Efficient thermochemical conversion of ligno-cellulosic biomass towards compatible liquid fuels like diesel and gasoline, potentially alcohols and ethers, is a story about new opportunities and challenging chemistry. Innovations of enabling materials (catalysts, adsorbents, membranes), efficient...

The performance of titania-supported molybdenum carbide, nitride, phosphide and oxide catalysts was compared for catalytic hydrodeoxygenation (HDO) of phenol. Phenol was selected as a stable model component for lignin degradation products in fast pyrolysis bio-oil. The synthesis and formation path...