Medium catalytic cascade

Selective catalysis is a challenge, as many target chemicals as well as their feedstocks are highly functionalized and chemically reactive, and their production from carbohydrates may involve complicated multistep reaction cascades with parallel pathways and reactive intermediates. The tuning of different catalytic sites with regard to number, activity and location on the catalyst or in the medium, and their stabilization under various reaction conditions, are certainly two of the biggest future challenges in the commercial development of biorefineries. 

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