10.18453/rosdok_id00002403 Woźniak, Bartosz Bartosz Woźniak http://d-nb.info/gnd/117790103X Universität Rostock 2018 540 Chemistry & allied sciences 2018 en http://purl.uni-rostock.de/rosdok/id00002403 urn:nbn:de:gbv:28-rosdok_id00002403-7 This dissertation reports on the synthesis and applications of the biomass-derived 1-hydroxyhexane-2,5-dione (HHD). A new catalytic process was developed for the hydrogenation/hydrolytic ring opening of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (5-HMF) resulting in the formation of HHD in good yields. Furthermore, HHD was converted to useful follow-up products including pyrroles and cyclopentanone derivatives. Additionally, readily accessible rhenium(VII) oxide was used for the catalytic deoxydehydration of renewable triols under solvent-free and aerobic conditions resulting in formation of the hydroxy-alkenes.