This review is dedicated to wheat hemicelluloses and its main components D-xylose and L-arabinose as raw materials for fine organic chemistry. The context of the wheat agro-industry, its by-products, and extraction and hydrolysis of hemicelluloses to produce the pentoses are considered. The straightforward preparation of pentose-based surfactants, their properties, and their situation in the field of carbohydrate-based surfactants are addressed. Multistep transformations of pentoses are also described, first from a methodology point of view, with the aim of producing multifunctional enantiopure building-blocks, then considering targeted natural and/or bioactive products. Selected reactions of furfural, an important dehydration product of pentoses, are also presented.

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农业剩余物的发展：来自小麦半纤维素的戊糖的精细有机化学品。

这篇综述专门针对小麦半纤维素及其主要成分D-木糖和L-阿拉伯糖，作为精细有机化学的原料。考虑了小麦农业工业，其副产品以及半纤维素的提取和水解以产生戊糖的情况。解决了基于戊糖的表面活性剂的直接制备，其性质以及在基于碳水化合物的表面活性剂领域中的情况。还首先从方法学的角度描述了戊糖的多步转化，其目的是生产多功能对映体纯砌块，然后考虑目标天然和/或生物活性产物。还介绍了糠醛的重要反应，糠醛是戊糖的重要脱水产物。