Oxidative Catalytic Fractionation of Lignocellulosic Biomass under Non-alkaline Conditions
Abstract
Biomass pretreatment methods are commonly used to isolate carbohydrates from biomass, but they often lead to modification, degradation, and/or low yields of lignin. Catalytic fractionation approaches provide a possible solution to these challenges by separating the polymeric sugar and lignin fractions in the presence of a catalyst that promotes cleavage of the lignin into aromatic monomers. In this work, we demonstrate an oxidative fractionation method conducted in the presence of a heterogeneous non-precious-metal Co-N-C catalyst and O2 in acetone as the solvent. The process affords a 15 wt% yield of phenolic products bearing aldehydes (vanillin, syringaldehyde) and carboxylic acids (p-hydroxybenzoic acid, vanillic acid, syringic acid), complementing the alkylated phenols obtained from existing reductive catalytic fractionation methods. The oxygenated aromatics derived from this process have appealing features for use in polymer synthesis and/or biological funneling to value-added products, and the non-alkaline conditions associated with this process support preservation of the cellulose, which remains insoluble at reaction conditions and is recovered as a solid.
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[2]
- Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
- Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States); Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC), Madison, WI (United States)
- Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC), East Lansing, MI (United States)
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- Research Org.:
- Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC), Madison, WI (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER); National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1827881
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0018409; FC02-07ER64494; S10 OD012245
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of the American Chemical Society
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 143; Journal Issue: 37; Journal ID: ISSN 0002-7863
- Publisher:
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 09 BIOMASS FUELS; Monomers; Organic polymers; Biomass; Catalysts; Biopolymers
Citation Formats
Luo, Hao, Weeda, Eric P., Alherech, Manar, Anson, Colin W., Karlen, Steven D., Cui, Yanbin, Foster, Cliff E., and Stahl, Shannon S. Oxidative Catalytic Fractionation of Lignocellulosic Biomass under Non-alkaline Conditions. United States: N. p., 2021.
Web. doi:10.1021/jacs.1c08635.
Luo, Hao, Weeda, Eric P., Alherech, Manar, Anson, Colin W., Karlen, Steven D., Cui, Yanbin, Foster, Cliff E., & Stahl, Shannon S. Oxidative Catalytic Fractionation of Lignocellulosic Biomass under Non-alkaline Conditions. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.1c08635
Luo, Hao, Weeda, Eric P., Alherech, Manar, Anson, Colin W., Karlen, Steven D., Cui, Yanbin, Foster, Cliff E., and Stahl, Shannon S. Thu .
"Oxidative Catalytic Fractionation of Lignocellulosic Biomass under Non-alkaline Conditions". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.1c08635. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1827881.
@article{osti_1827881,
title = {Oxidative Catalytic Fractionation of Lignocellulosic Biomass under Non-alkaline Conditions},
author = {Luo, Hao and Weeda, Eric P. and Alherech, Manar and Anson, Colin W. and Karlen, Steven D. and Cui, Yanbin and Foster, Cliff E. and Stahl, Shannon S.},
abstractNote = {Biomass pretreatment methods are commonly used to isolate carbohydrates from biomass, but they often lead to modification, degradation, and/or low yields of lignin. Catalytic fractionation approaches provide a possible solution to these challenges by separating the polymeric sugar and lignin fractions in the presence of a catalyst that promotes cleavage of the lignin into aromatic monomers. In this work, we demonstrate an oxidative fractionation method conducted in the presence of a heterogeneous non-precious-metal Co-N-C catalyst and O2 in acetone as the solvent. The process affords a 15 wt% yield of phenolic products bearing aldehydes (vanillin, syringaldehyde) and carboxylic acids (p-hydroxybenzoic acid, vanillic acid, syringic acid), complementing the alkylated phenols obtained from existing reductive catalytic fractionation methods. The oxygenated aromatics derived from this process have appealing features for use in polymer synthesis and/or biological funneling to value-added products, and the non-alkaline conditions associated with this process support preservation of the cellulose, which remains insoluble at reaction conditions and is recovered as a solid.},
doi = {10.1021/jacs.1c08635},
journal = {Journal of the American Chemical Society},
number = 37,
volume = 143,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Sep 09 00:00:00 EDT 2021},
month = {Thu Sep 09 00:00:00 EDT 2021}
}
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