Conversion of Lignocellulosic Biomass and Derivatives into Value-Added Heteroatom-Containing Compounds

Lignocellulosic biomass has been developed as a sustainable and promising feedstock for production of various value-added chemicals and biofuels [1–3]. Due to the oxygen-rich features of biomass sources, the yielded products are typically functionalized with oxygen-containing species, remarkably enriching the product variety [4–7]. Moreover, functionalization of biomass derivatives with nitrogen, sulphur, phosphorus, and silicon atoms can also be achieved via specific reaction routes or catalytic pathways [8, 9]. Those heteroatom-containing compounds are crucial core scaffolds or key intermediates in a wide range of bioactive molecules and functional materials and can also be directly used as solvents, surfactants, and so on [10–12]