Flow-Through Solvolysis Enables Production of Native-Like Lignin from Biomass

David Brandner; Jacob Kruger; Nicholas Thornburg; Gregory Facas; Jacob Kenny; Reagan Dreiling; Ana Rita Morais; Tom Renders; Nicholas Cleveland; Renee Happs; Rui Katahira; Todd Vinzant; Daniel Wilcox; Yuriy Román-Leshkov; Gregg Beckham

doi:10.1039/D1GC01591E

Flow-Through Solvolysis Enables Production of Native-Like Lignin from Biomass

David Brandner
, Jacob Kruger
, Nicholas Thornburg
, Gregory Facas
, Jacob Kenny
, Reagan Dreiling
, Ana Rita Morais
, Tom Renders
, Nicholas Cleveland
, Renee Happs
, Rui Katahira
, Todd Vinzant
, Daniel Wilcox
, Yuriy Román-Leshkov
, Gregg Beckham

National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
KU Leuven
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Abstract

The inherent reactivity of lignin in conventional biomass processing commonly prevents isolation of native lignin and limits monomer yields from catalytic depolymerization strategies that target aryl-ether bonds. Here we show that flow-through solvolysis with methanol at 225 °C produces native-like lignin from poplar, enabling the study of intrinsic lignin properties and evaluation of steady-state lignin depolymerization processes.

Original language	American English
Pages (from-to)	5437-5441
Number of pages	5
Journal	Green Chemistry
Volume	23
Issue number	15
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1039/D1GC01591E https://doi.org/10.1039/d1gc01591e
State	Published - 7 Aug 2021

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NREL/JA-2A00-80286

Keywords

depolymerization
flow-through solvolysis
lignin
methanol
poplar

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Brandner, D., Kruger, J., Thornburg, N., Facas, G., Kenny, J., Dreiling, R., Morais, A. R., Renders, T., Cleveland, N., Happs, R., Katahira, R., Vinzant, T., Wilcox, D., Román-Leshkov, Y., & Beckham, G. (2021). Flow-Through Solvolysis Enables Production of Native-Like Lignin from Biomass. Green Chemistry, 23(15), 5437-5441. https://doi.org/10.1039/D1GC01591E, https://doi.org/10.1039/d1gc01591e

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