An “ideal lignin” facilitates full biomass utilization
Abstract
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.
- Authors:
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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)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC), Madison, WI (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1543278
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0018409; FC02-07ER64494; AC05-000R22725
- Resource Type:
- Journal Article: Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Science Advances
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 4; Journal Issue: 9; Journal ID: ISSN 2375-2548
- Publisher:
- AAAS
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Citation Formats
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., and Ralph, John. An “ideal lignin” facilitates full biomass utilization. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aau2968.
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. An “ideal lignin” facilitates full biomass utilization. United States. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aau2968
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., and Ralph, John. 2018.
"An “ideal lignin” facilitates full biomass utilization". United States. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aau2968. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1543278.
@article{osti_1543278,
title = {An “ideal lignin” facilitates full biomass utilization},
author = {Li, Yanding and Shuai, Li and Kim, Hoon and Motagamwala, Ali Hussain and Mobley, Justin K. and Yue, Fengxia and Tobimatsu, Yuki and Havkin-Frenkel, Daphna and Chen, Fang and Dixon, Richard A. and Luterbacher, Jeremy S. and Dumesic, James A. and Ralph, John},
abstractNote = {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.},
doi = {10.1126/sciadv.aau2968},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1543278},
journal = {Science Advances},
issn = {2375-2548},
number = 9,
volume = 4,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Sep 28 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Fri Sep 28 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}
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