Recently, "green chemistry" has attracted the interest of all the countries. Clean, renewable energy is becoming one of the hot research areas. Biomass, which is huge, renewable and pollution-free, has a great potential for biofuels. Fructose, one of the biomass resources, could be selectively dehydrated into 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (5-HMF), which is an important platform chemical in the production of polymers, liquid alkane fuels and pharmaceuticals. Many works on the dehydration of fructose have been carried out. Leshkov et al.
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