{"id":229218,"date":"2026-01-17T02:20:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T08:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/biomass-derived-furans-offer-sustainable-alternative-to-petroleum-in-chemical-production"},"modified":"2026-01-17T02:20:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T08:20:04","slug":"biomass-derived-furans-offer-sustainable-alternative-to-petroleum-in-chemical-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/biomass-derived-furans-offer-sustainable-alternative-to-petroleum-in-chemical-production","title":{"rendered":"Biomass-derived furans offer sustainable alternative to petroleum in chemical production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/biomass-derived-furans-offer-sustainable-alternative-to-petroleum-in-chemical-production.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A research project conducted by the Max-Planck-Institut f\u00fcr Kohlenforschung shows how biomass can be used as a raw material for chemical products instead of petroleum. The scientists have published their findings in the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.aec6532\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Science<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The chemical industry is facing major challenges: for reasons of CO<sub>2<\/sub> neutrality, circular economy, and geopolitical instability, there is a desire to move away from petroleum and other fossil materials as raw materials for the production of high-quality chemicals. But how will molecular building blocks for essential medicines, for example, be obtained in the future?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research project conducted by the Max-Planck-Institut f\u00fcr Kohlenforschung shows how biomass can be used as a raw material for chemical products instead of petroleum. The scientists have published their findings in the journal Science. The chemical industry is facing major challenges: for reasons of CO2 neutrality, circular economy, and geopolitical instability, there is a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}