why didn't you post this to: Post 493543 (https://www.thevespiary.org/talk/index.php?topic=7536.msg49354300#msg49354300)
(Rhodium: "Chemistry & Petroleum dependency", Chemistry Discourse)
i started this thread because I wasnt sure whether the previous post was expired or not yet (im still new to the hive- forgot to utfse and find original thread, perhaps you bees gentle reminders to use the fucking search engine will remind me in future). as for referencing:
http://www.ul.ie/~childsp/CinA/Issue58/TOC7_GreenChemistry.htm (http://www.ul.ie/~childsp/CinA/Issue58/TOC7_GreenChemistry.htm)
-orginal document
J H Clark, Chemistry in Britain, 1998, 34(10), 43
K M Draths & J W Frost, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1991, 113, 9361
B M Troste, Science, 1991, 254, 1471
regarding the products of biomass conversion mentioned in the document- vanillin is pretty useful- is it not? how about adipic acid for producing cylopentanone? furfural can also be used for some useful reductive alkylations.