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JOURNAL OF WOOD CHEMISTRY AND TECHNOLOGY
Volume 31, Issue 1, Pages 58-72Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/02773813.2010.484123
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Eucalyptus; xylans; 4-O-methylglucuronic acids; kraft pulps; black liquor; methanolysis-GC; NMR spectroscopy; size exclusion chromatography
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The 4-O-methylglucuronoxylans isolated from wood, pulp, and black liquor from six eucalyptus wood species were characterized. The 1H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) studies revealed that all eucalyptus wood xylans contain O-2-substituted 4-O-methylglucuronic acid (MeGlcA) groups with hexose residues (9-26%). Their molecular weight (Mw) and polydispersity varied in the range of 26,083-28,405 g.mol-1 and 1.13-1.17, respectively. The xylan retention during pulping increased with increasing degree of MeGlcA substitution in the xylose ring. An average of 54% xylans was retained in the pulp and the remaining 46% were degraded and/or dissolved in the black liquor (39% degraded and 7% dissolved). The average Mw of the xylans retained in the pulp and dissolved in the black liquor is influenced by pulp kappa number and averaged 20,134 and 14,778 g.mol-1, respectively, at kappa 17. The average substitution degree of uronic acids, including MeGlcA and hexenuronic acids (HexA) in the xylans isolated from pulps (kappa 17) and black liquors were 1.05 and 1.13/10 xyloses, respectively. Of the total uronic acids present in the six original woods, an average of 36% w/w was retained in the pulps.
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