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Kuijper, S.M. (author)
For various reasons mankind is looking for alternatives for fossil fuels. One of these alternatives is ethanol made from plant biomass. However, the plant material when broken down by hydrolysis into its sugar monomers contains a significant amount of xylose, a 5-carbon-sugar or pentose. Contrary to the sugars with 6 carbon atoms (hexoses) wild...
doctoral thesis 2006