“…Since 2000, however, pyrolysis of whole biomass, cellulose and lignin has been a fastmoving field of research, spawning extensive reviews, every 10 months (inclusive of the recent papers by Vinu and Broadbelt, 2012, Lede, 2012and and Burnham, Zhou and Broadbelt, 2015 on the average in an effort to inform the research community and keep-up with the pace of advances. In addition to the earlier reviews on cellulose already mentioned, the following papers, listed chronologically, chronical the advances made in the 15 year period from 2000 to 2015 (Anital Jr, 1985;Sinha, et al, 2000;Bridgwater and Peacocke, 2000;Amen-Chen, Pakdel and Roy, 2001;Czernick and Bridgwater, 2004;Reale, et al, 2004;Branca, Albano and Di Blasi, 2005;Mohan, Pittman and Steele, 2006;Prakash and Karunanithi, 2008;Venderbosch and Prins, 2010;Slutter, et al, 2010;White, Catallo and Legendre, 2011;Pandey and Kim, 2011;Bridgwater, 2012;and Shen, et al, 2015). Short of the work by Vinu andShen, et al, 2015, even the most recent reviews hardly mention the already large and rapidly growing body of literature on molecular-based modeling studies that are now a mainstream part of the effort to elucidate the complex process of lignocellulosic biomass pyrolysis.…”