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Basic chemicals by common chemical methods

Basic chemicals by common chemical methods Figure 1 illustrates some straightforward examples of possible production routes in making useful chemicals from glucose by well-known chemical processes.1,2 Thus, glucose can be oxidised, either under acidic or alkaline conditions, to mono- and dicarboxylic acids, or reduced to various polyhydroxy compounds by means of hydrogenation or hydrogenolysis. Other
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