An “ideal lignin” facilitates full biomass utilization

Li, Yanding; Shuai, Li; Kim, Hoon; Motagamwala, Ali Hussain; Mobley, Justin K.; Yue, Fengxia; Tobimatsu, Yuki; Havkin-Frenkel, Daphna; Chen, Fang; Dixon, Richard A.; Luterbacher, Jeremy S.; Dumesic, James A.; Ralph, John

doi:10.1126/sciadv.aau2968

Title: An “ideal lignin” facilitates full biomass utilization

Journal Article · Fri Sep 28 00:00:00 EDT 2018 · Science Advances

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aau2968· OSTI ID:1543278

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Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States); Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ. (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA (United States)
Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States); Kyoto Univ. (Japan)
State Univ. of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ (United States); Bakto Flavors LLC, North Brunswick, NJ (United States)
Univ. of North Texas, Denton, TX (United States); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland)

Lignin, a major component of lignocellulosic biomass, is crucial to plant growth and development but is a major impediment to efficient biomass utilization in various processes. Valorizing lignin is increasingly realized as being essential. However, rapid condensation of lignin during acidic extraction leads to the formation of recalcitrant condensed units that, along with similar units and structural heterogeneity in native lignin, drastically limits product yield and selectivity. Catechyl lignin (C-lignin), which is essentially a benzodioxane homopolymer without condensed units, might represent an ideal lignin for valorization, as it circumvents these issues. We discovered that C-lignin is highly acid-resistant. Hydrogenolysis of C-lignin resulted in the cleavage of all benzodioxane structures to produce catechyl-type monomers in near-quantitative yield with a selectivity of 90% to a single monomer.

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Research Organization:: Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC), Madison, WI (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0018409; FC02-07ER64494; AC05-000R22725

OSTI ID:: 1543278

Journal Information:: Science Advances, Vol. 4, Issue 9; ISSN 2375-2548

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