Utilising nature's complexity - understanding fundamental organometallic binding modes of furans and coordination of bioderived furans

地球化石燃料储量的减少促使人们大力推动利用可再生生物资源来取代从石油中提取的许多产品和燃料。其中一个有希望的发展是生产所谓的呋喃类化合物，这种有用的分子很容易从制糖、玉米和林业行业的废物中发现的碳水化合物中生产出来。鉴于澳大利亚丰富的农业资源，发现这些潜在有用的呋喃化合物的全部能量应该是一个主要的优先事项。这项研究旨在将澳大利亚的生物质潜力与塑料、制药、精细和农化行业联系起来。

The earth's decreasing reserves of fossil fuels has prompted an intense push to utilise the renewable bioresources to replace the many products and fuels derived from petroleum. One of the promising developments is the production of so-called Furanics, useful molecules produced easily from carbohydrates found in waste materials from the sugar, corn and forestry industries. Given Australia's wealth of agricultural resources, discovering the full power of these potentially useful furanic compounds should be a major priority. This research aims to link Australia's biomass potential with the plastics, pharmaceutical, fine and agrichemical industries.