ABSTRACT
Abstract: Coals are congenitally deficient as clean energy, but have overwhelming advantages as raw materials for fine organic chemicals and advanced carbon materials. In this chapter, coal-based products and their uses are reviewed. Many value-added organic products, especially condensed aromatics, can be obtained from coal extracts and soluble portions from coal thermal dissolution, catalytic hydroconversion, and oxidation. Such products have many important uses in the fields of medicine, food, synthetic plastic, rubber, protective coating, dye, superior electrical conductive polymeric conductor, and optoelectronic nanodevices. Directionally converting coals to the value-added organic products deserves investigation.
