Biomass derived chemicals may offer sustainable alternatives to petroleum derived hydrocarbons, while also enhancing engine combustion performance with co-optimization of fuels and engines. This paper presents a numerical study on the oxidation and combustion of a novel biofuel compound, cyclopentanol. Its reaction kinetics and thermochemistry are first explored using ab initio quantum chemistry methods. Thermochemical properties are calculated for cyclopentanol and a set of its key oxidation intermediates. C-H bond dissociation energies of cyclopentanol are computed for different carbon sites. For the fuel radicals, the energy barriers of their ring-opening reactions