Virginie Lambertyn

TL;DR: An efficient conversion of chitin, the second most abundant renewable polymer on the Earth, into N-acetylglucosamine and N,N′-diacetylchitobiose, using room temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) and commercially available chit inases is described for the first time.

TL;DR: A simultaneous strategy combining 1-ethyl-3-methyl imidazolium acetate [C2mim][OAc]- and endo-xylanases as pretreatment in a one-batch produced xylose with similar yield than those obtained by the sequential strategy.

TL;DR: Insect chitins extracted from Bombyx eri larva showed higher purity grade than the one extracted from shrimp shells under the same conditions and would be thus a more relevant source for the selective production of N-acetyl-D-glucosamine.

TL;DR: This complete statistical study confirmed that the established models were appropriate to predict the sugar yields achieved after different pretreatment conditions from WB and DWB biomasses and established clearer link between structural changes induced by pretreatment and the best enzymatic performances obtained.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors proposed a sustainable route by replacing the current reference organic solvent, 2-methyl-2-butanol (2M2B) by either 2-methyltetrahydrofuran (MeTHF), an agrosolvent, or 2methy-ltetrahedrofuran-3-one (meTHF-3one), a food-grade ingredient used as solvent.