1. Platform chemicals- significance and need
2. Biorefinery- general overview
3. Petroleum versus biorefinery based platform chemicals
4. Life cycle analysis of potential substrates of sustainable biorefinery
5. Propylene glycol - an industrially important C3 platform chemical
6. 3-hydroxypropanoic acid production from renewable resources and its commercial significance
7. Butyric acid - a platform chemical for biofuel and high value biochemicals
8. Fumaric acid - biotechnological production of the platform chemical by Rhizopus oryzae
9. Malic and succinic acid - potential C4 platform chemicals for polymer and biodegradable plastic production
10. Potential application of renewable itaconic acid for the synthesis of 3-methyltetrahydrofuran
11. Production of renewable C5 platform chemicals and potential applications
12. Sorbitol production from biomass and its global market
13. Sugar derived industrially important C6 platform chemicals
14. Production of drop in and novel bio-based platform chemicals
15. Platform chemicals and pharmaceutical industries
16. Biorefinery and possible deforestation
17. Biorefinery and possible negative impact on food market
18. Algal biorefinery for high value platform chemicals
19. Animal fat and vegetable oil based platform chemical biorefinery
20. Platform chemical biorefinery and agro-industrial waste management
21. Integrated biorefinery for food, feed and platform chemicals
22. Integrated biorefinery for bioenergy and platform chemicals
23. Microbiology of platform chemical biorefinery and metabolic engineering
24. Enzymes in platform chemical biorefinery
25. Process design and optimization for platform chemical biorefinery
26. Case studies on industrial production of renewable platform chemicals
