Biomass Selective Valorization to Useful Feedstocks Under Aqueous Conditions: Involvement in COST Action CM0903

2009年，我们加入了一项新的欧洲成本行动(CM0903：生物质用于可持续燃料和化学品(UBIOCHEM))，涉及“可再生化学品”领域。这项行动从2009年7月持续到2013年11月。在过去的20个月里，我们建立了新的联系，使我们能够利用水基反应系统在选择性生物质催化方面定义新的研究，并与涉及合成生物学和生物技术/植物科学的团体建立密切联系。在2011年7月至2013年11月期间，我们建议使用这些小组提供的两种材料(及其模型)进行调查，试图开发新的催化化学，旨在提供富含C7+的碳氢化合物产品，用于催化后的简易分离。这些联合研究计划将通过交换博士生(通过费用资助)进行，而这笔赠款将支持这些访问研究人员的消耗品费用，以及S.Woodward将参加的一些联合规划会议。对于后两项活动，不存在支持它们的成本机制。

In 2009 we joined a new European COST Action (CM0903: Utilisation of Biomass for Sustainable Fuels and Chemicals (UBIOCHEM)) in the area of 'renewable chemicals'. This Action runs over the period July 2009 to November 2013. In the past 20 months we have developed new contacts have allowed us to define new research in selective biomass catalysis using water-based reaction systems and close links to groups involved in synthetic biology and biotechnology/plant science. In the period July 2011 to November 2013 we are proposing to make investigations using both materials provided by these groups (and models thereof) to attempt to develop new catalytic chemistry aimed at providing C7+ rich hydrocarbon products for facile separation post catalysis. These joint research programmes will be run through exchange of PhD students (funded through COST) while this grant will support the consumables costs of these visiting researchers and some joint planning meetings to be attended by S. Woodward. For these latter two activities no COST mechanism exists to support them.