Furfural is an organic compound with the formula C4H3OCHO. It is a colorless liquid, although commercial samples are often brown. It has an aldehyde group...

Hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF), also known as 5-(hydroxymethyl)furfural, is an organic compound formed by the dehydration of reducing sugars. It is a white...

known synthesis of a furan compound, the second being furfural in 1821. Despite this, it was furfural which came to set naming conventions for later furans...

The rapid furfural test is a chemical test used to distinguish between glucose and fructose. The rapid furfural test is similar to Molisch's test but...

the presence of certain carbohydrates, in which they are converted to furfural with hydrochloric acid, which reacts with aniline acetate to produce a...

monosaccharides by strong mineral acids. Pentoses are then dehydrated to furfural, while hexoses are dehydrated to 5-hydroxymethylfurfural. Either of these...

defensive glands. The acid-catalysed degradation of hemicellulose gives furfural, a precursor to synthetic polymers and to tetrahydrofuran. Xylose is metabolised...

alcohols), acetone, acetaldehyde, esters, tannins, and aldehydes (e.g. furfural). Congeners are responsible for most of the taste and aroma of distilled...

usually synthesized by catalytic hydrogenation of furfural. OC4H3CHO + 4 H2 → OC4H7CH3 + H2O Furfural is produced by the acid-catalyzed digestion of pentosan...

solvents. Furfuryl alcohol is manufactured industrially by hydrogenation of furfural, which is itself typically produced from waste bio-mass such as corncobs...

intermediate, e.g. to 3,4-dihydropyran. It is prepared by hydrogenation of furfural. It is a precursor to 1,5-pentanediol. THFA is often used in epoxy resin...

chemicals. The name "furan" comes from the Latin furfur, which means bran (furfural is produced from bran). The first furan derivative to be described was...

Furfurylamine is an aromatic amine typically formed by the reductive amination of furfural with ammonia. The pharmaceutical drug furtrethonium, a parasympathomimetic...

polysaccharide and oligosaccharide ketoses yields simpler sugars followed by furfural. The dehydrated ketose then reacts with two equivalents of resorcinol in...

certain sugars to be converted to THF via acid-catalyzed digestion to furfural and decarbonylation to furan, although this method is not widely practiced...

In 1923, Durite Plastics, Inc., was the first manufacturer of phenol-furfural resins. In 1933, polyethylene was discovered by Imperial Chemical Industries...

Lohia's younger brother, went to Thailand to start a new factory to produce Furfural alcohol from corn cobs. He later found Indorama Holdings, which is a wool...

manufactured by catalytic hydrogenolysis of furfural alcohol or via a hydrogenation-hydrogenolysis sequence from furfural in the vapor phase. Swiftfuel Baird...

Ammonia 26, 22, 20, 17 (−80, −40, 0, +20 °C) Methanol 30 Ethylene glycol 37 Furfural 42.0 Glycerol 41.2, 47, 42.5 (0, 20, 25 °C) Water 87.9, 80.2, 55.5 (0,...

5-Hydroxy-2(5H)-furanone is a furanone derived from oxidation of furfural using singlet oxygen. This oxidation is carried out generally in methanol or...

the reagent used is toxic. Anthrone (phenols) method Forms hydroxymethyl furfural in hot acetic acid II. Enzymatic methods A. Glucose oxidase G l u c o s...

six-membered ring system are known as pyranoses. Benzene Pyranose Furan Furfural Pyridine Pyrone Thiopyran "Blue Book chapter P-2". iupac.qmul.ac.uk. Retrieved...

five-carbon sugars such as xylose. Pentosan-rich biomass is the precursor to furfural. The pentosan content has been determined for many natural materials: 29-25%:...

reuse or for disposal. Solvent refining uses solvent such as cresol or furfural to remove unwanted, mainly aromatics from lubricating oil stock or diesel...

of which the most common starting materials are furfuryl alcohol and furfural. In the resin and in the cured polyfurfurol, the furan rings are not connected...

Isovaleraldehyde Benzaldehyde (phenylmethanal) Cinnamaldehyde Vanillin Tolualdehyde Furfural Retinaldehyde Glycolaldehyde Glutaraldehyde Glyoxal Malondialdehyde Phthalaldehyde...

products can be separated and both have a value; the commercial conversion of furfural into furfuryl alcohol and 2-furoic acid is an example of this. Alternatively...

nitrogen (volatile bases containing nitrogen): 0.1; dry extract: 1.5; furfural: not detectable. In Germany, rectified spirit is generically called Primasprit...

It can be produced from furfural by a benzoin condensation reaction catalyzed by cyanide ions. Furoin synthesis from furfural is also catalyzed by vitamin...

The most important tests for pentoses rely on converting the pentose to furfural, which then reacts with a chromophore. In Tollens’ test for pentoses (not...