Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the main greenhouse gas that is produced by human activity and has brought the atmospheric CO2 concentration level over the normal outdoor ambient threshold of 400 ppm. This increase is encouraging the search for methods to transform CO2 into more valuable chemicals. ... Read more

Phenol is an important industrial commodity used as a precursor to many useful compounds. The cumene hydroperoxide process, which is the most commonly used phenol production process nowadays, is both complicated, with low per pass cumene conversion and is producing acetone as a by... Read more

Our technology provides a new type of oxidative cleavage reaction of organic compounds with highly selective product formation. The realization that many processes practiced on a large scale were detrimental to the environment led to a movement of reshaping the science of organic ... Read more

An efficient and selective decomposition of plant biomass carbohydrates to their basic components, carbon monoxide and hydrogen, for use as syngas.Terrestrial plants contain about 70% hemicellulose and cellulose, which constitute a significant renewable bio-resource with potential as an alte... Read more