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The compositions of the liquid organic products formed from aspen wood and cellulose at 150, 200, and 250° C in the presence of 1, 3, and 5% of HCl, HBr, and H2SO4 have been studied. The yield of levulinic acid from wood reached 13.0–15.5%, and from cellulose 28.8%.
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Institute of the Chemistry of Natural Organic Raw Material, Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Krasnoyarsk, fax (3912) 43 93 42. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 107–112, January–February, 1997.
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Efremov, A.A., Pervyshina, G.G. & Kuznetsov, B.N. Thermocatalytic transformations of wood and cellulose in the presence of HCl, HBr, and H2SO4 . Chem Nat Compd 33, 84–88 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02273932
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