Category:Platform Chemical

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Platform chemicals are compounds that serve as building blocks for numerous chemical intermediates and end products.

The U.S. Department of Energy^[1] identified 12 chemicals or chemical classes as potential building blocks or platform chemicals from which many value-added chemicals may be derived. For example, succinic acid could be used to produce a biobased butanediol, expanding the utility of this compound.

The platform chemicals in the top 12 list were glycerol, levulinic acid; 1,4 diacids (fumaric acid; malic acid and succinic acid); 2,5 furan dicarboxylic acid; aspartic acid; glutamic acid; glucaric acid; 3 hydroxy propionic acid; sorbitol; xylitol; arabinitol and itaconic acid.

References

1. ↑ Top value added chemicals from biomass: Volume 1: Results of screening for potential candidates from sugars and synthesis gas

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