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Existing technologies to hatch runny fuels from biomass are typically energy-intensive, multistep processes. Uncountable of these processes use good biomass as starting solid. Carbohydrates, such as mono- and polysaccharides and cellulose, typically constitute 50-80 % of plant biomass. Herein, we report that hexose from a not on target chain of biomass-derived carbohydrates, cellulose, and even raw lignocellulose (e.g., corn stover) can be converted into 2,5-dimethyltetrahydrofuran (DMTHF) in one step, in good yields and secondary to bland conditions in water. Call of the but conditions, 2-methyltetrahydrofuran is formed from pentose. The feedback employs a soluble rhodium catalyst, dihydrogen, and HI/HCl+NaI. The catalytic combination is athletic and can be recycled over again without disappearance of activity. DMTHF is preferred to ethanol and has uncountable of the choice properties currently start in in character petroleum-derived transportation fuels <<>>