Furfural's physical properties are summarized in the table at top right.

The reaction of furfural and aniline produces a bright pink color.

China is the biggest supplier of furfural, and accounts for around half of global capacity.

Mucobromic acid can be synthesized by bromination of furfural.

Related to the production of furfural, HMF is produced from sugars.

Furoin synthesis from furfural is also catalyzed by vitamin B (thiamine).

Today, furfural is still produced from agricultural byproducts like sugarcane bagasse and corn cobs.

The acid hydrolysis of polysaccharides and oligosaccharides yields simpler sugars followed by furfural.

Industrially, it is synthesized from furfural.

Pentoses are then dehydrated to furfural, while hexoses are dehydrated to 5-hydroxymethylfurfural.

The third class includes reactions describing the synthesis of FDCA from furfural.

A pentose, if present, will be dehydrated to form furfural which then reacts with the orcinol to generate a colored substance.

In 1901, the German chemist Carl Harries deduced furfural's structure.

The synthesis of novel biomass-based vinyl polymers from 5-methoxymethyl furfural as the starting material was described by Yoshida.

It is processed into fibreboard and paper and used to make furfural, cellulose and plastics.

In the laboratory, synthesis of furfural from corn cobs takes place by reflux with dilute sulfuric acid.

Under acidic conditions sugars tend to form furans such as furfural and 5-hydroxymethylfurfural by a series of dehydrations of the carbohydrate.

Hydrochloric acid dehydrates pentoses (sugars containing five carbon atoms) to produce furfural.

He discovered furfural, an oily liquid used in making synthetic rubber, in refining gasoline, and as a bleaching agent.

It can also be prepared by hydrogenation of furfural followed by hydrogenolysis of the substituted tetrahydrofuran.

This other test relies on reaction of the furfural with phloroglucinol to produce a colored compound with high molar absorptivity.

The acid-catalysed degradation of hemicellulose gives furfural, a specialty solvent in industry and a precursor to synthetic polymers.

Furfural (burnt oats)

Indicating its diminished aromaticity relative to benzene, furfural is readily hydrogenated to the corresponding tetrahydrofuran derivatives.

Its acetate is used in the Aniline acetate test for carbohydrates, identifying pentoses by conversion to furfural.