Structural Transformation of Isolated Poplar and Switchgrass Lignins during Dilute Acid Treatment

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• 作者：Qining Sun ; Yunqiao Pu ; Xianzhi Meng ; Tyrone Wells ; Art J. Ragauskas
• 刊名：ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：September 8, 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：3
• 期：9
• 页码：2203-2210
• 全文大小：526K
• ISSN：2168-0485

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A key step in conversion of cellulosic biomass into sustainable fuels and chemicals is thermochemical pretreatment to reduce plant cell wall recalcitrance. Obtaining an improved understanding of the fundamental chemistry of lignin, the most recalcitrant component of biomass, during pretreatment is critical to the continued development of renewable biofuel production. To examine the intrinsic chemistry of lignin during dilute acid pretreatment (DAP), lignin was isolated from poplar and switchgrass using a cellulolytic enzyme system and then treated under DAP conditions. Our results highlight that lignin is subjected to depolymerization reactions within the first 2 min of dilute acid pretreatment and these changes are accompanied by increased generation of aliphatic and phenolic hydroxyl groups of lignin. This is followed by a competing set of depolymerization and repolymerization reactions that lead to a decrease in the content of guaiacyl lignin units and an increase in condensed lignin units as the reaction residence time is extended beyond 5 min. A detailed comparison of changes in functional groups and molecular weights of cellulolytic enzyme lignins demonstrated different structural parameters, related to the recalcitrant properties of lignin, are altered during DAP conditions.