Correction to: Enhanced Biosynthesis of Furoic Acid via the Effective Pretreatment of Corncob into Furfural in the Biphasic Media

Correction to: Catalysis Letters (2020) https://doi.org/10.1007/s10562-020-03152-9

An error appeared in our paper entitled “Enhanced Biosynthesis of Furoic Acid via the Effective Pretreatment of Corncob into Furfural in the Biphasic Media” published in Catalysis Letters. Unfortunately, there are some mistakes in the values and equation in the Sect. 2.3 Conversion of Corncob to FAL and in Table 2. The correct paragraph of Sect. 2.3 Conversion of Corncob to FAL and Table 2 are as follows.

2.3 Conversion of Corncob to FAL

In a 100-mL sealed stainless steel reactor (Shanghai Yushen instrument Co., LTD. P.R. China), 40–60 mesh of corncob powders (3.0 g, dry weight; 32.5 wt% cellulose, 29.0 wt% hemicellulose, and 21.7 wt% of lignin), HCl (0.1–1.0 wt%, pH 0.5–1.4) and Sn-BTN (0.8–6.0 wt%) were well mixed in 40 mL MIBK-H₂O (0:10–7:3, v:v) media. This mixture was incubated at 130–180 °C for 20–45 min. The yield of FAL was calculated as below equation:

$${\text{Yield}}_{{{\text{FAL}}}} = \left( {\text{g FAL detected}} \right)/\left( {\text{g hemicellulose in corncob}} \right) \times 100\%$$

Table 2 Conversion of corncob into FA via chemoenzymatic approach in the aqueous media and biphasic media