High yield of renewable hexanes by direct hydrolysis–hydrodeoxygenation of cellulose in an aqueous phase catalytic system
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System P
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In aqueous phosphoric acid, cellulose was efficiently converted into hexanes using a Ru/C catalyst combined with layered compounds. The layered compounds showed powerful inhibition of isosorbide, the side-product for the cellulose-to-hexanes route.