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A biofuel consisting of a mixture of furanic compounds and polymethoxy benzene compounds which can be mixed with standard fuel consisting in hydrocarbons, and the process to obtain these compounds from sugar cane by converting cellulose, hemicellulose and sugars in furan derivatives and levullinic a

A biofuel consisting of a mixture of furanic compounds and polymethoxy benzene compounds which can be mixed with standard fuel consisting in hydrocarbons, and the process to obtain these compounds from sugar cane by converting cellulose, hemicellulose and sugars in furan derivatives and levullinic acid esthers and by converting lignin in alkoxy benzene compounds by hydrolysing the cellulose and lignin of sugar cane first in a mixture of N alkyl imidazolium chloride, hydrochloric acid 37% and an alcohol, dehydrating pentoses and hexoses so obtained from cellulose, stabilising the aldehyde groups as acetal and stabilising the phenolic hydroxyls obtained from lignin as alkyl ethers.

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1. A product suitable to use as a biofuel consisting of a mixture of the acetal of hydroxymethyl furaldehyde, levullinic esther, alkoxy benzenes, which can be mixed with both gasoline and diesel oil for motor cars and a process for obtaining this biofuel consisting in solving sugar cane or a similar

1. A product suitable to use as a biofuel consisting of a mixture of the acetal of hydroxymethyl furaldehyde, levullinic esther, alkoxy benzenes, which can be mixed with both gasoline and diesel oil for motor cars and a process for obtaining this biofuel consisting in solving sugar cane or a similar crop containing cellulose, hemicellulose, sugar and lignin in a mixture of N-alkyl imidazolium chloride (NAIC), hydrochloric acid 37% and an alcohol, hydrolysing cellulose into the acetal of glucose, hydrolysing the lignin in phenolic compounds, evaporating the alcohol and water, dehydrating the glucose acetal to the acetal of hydroxymethyl furfural, adding to the reaction mixture an alcohol to produce the acetal of HMF, the esther of levullinic acid and the alkoxy benzenes, extracting the reaction products from the ionic liquid phase, taking out the residues of the ionic liquid from the organic phase by extracting the ketone extract with water, evaporating the ketone extract to isolate the reaction products. 2. The process of claim 1 where the reaction mixture for hydrolysing cellulose is a mixture containing 20-80% of an ionic liquid composed of N-alkyl imidazolium chloride with the alkyl group with 1 to 10 carbon atoms, containing also 2-15% of hydrochloric acid 37%, and containing an alcohol, which may contain carbon atoms C1-C6 in a quantity that makes the sum of the components of the reaction mixture 100%. 3. The process of claim 1 where the temperature of the hydrolysis reaction is 50-120° C., the temperature of the dehydration reaction is 60-100° C. and the temperature to produce the acetal, the esther and the phenolic ether is 80-120° C. 4. The process of claim 1 where the first extraction is made with a ketone in C5 to C10 in a quantity which may vary between 10 and 50% of the NAIC phase. 5. The process of claim 1 where the second extraction is made with water in order to remove the residues of the ionic liquid from the keton phase. 6. The process of claim 1 where the extract free from ionic liquid is evaporated in vacuum to obtain a mixture suitable as a component for standard fuel for motor cars, in a proportion of 5% to 50% in weight of biofuel to hydrocarbons. 7. The process of claim 1 where the conversion of sugar cane in acetal of hydroxymethyl furaldehyde, esther of levullinic acid, alkyl ethers of benzene is 95% 8. The process of claim 1 where reactions can be made in batch or continuously 9. The process of claim 1 where the ionic liquid can be recovered after one month recycling by neutralizing the hydrochloric acid with sodium hydroxide and distilling the N-Methyl imidazole.