Journal
COMPUTATIONAL AND THEORETICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 1054, Issue -, Pages 80-87Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.comptc.2014.12.007
Keywords
Lignin; beta-1 linkage lignin dimer; Thermal decomposition mechanism; Density functional theory (DFT)
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51266002, 50776101]
- Natural Science Research Funds of the Department of Education of Guizhou Province [[2013]405]
- Open Research Funds of Key Laboratory of Low-grade Energy Utilization Technologies and Systems (Chongqing University)
- Ministry of Education of China [LLE-UTS-201303]
- Science and Technology Funds of Guizhou province [[2012]2188]
- National Key Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) [2013CB228101]
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In order to gain a better understanding of the detailed mechanism of lignin pyrolysis and the formation mechanism of its main products, the thermal decomposition processes of a beta-1 linkage lignin dimer model compound 1 (1,2-p-hydroxyphenyl-1,3-propanediol) were theoretically investigated by employing density functional theory methods at B3LYP/6-31G(d, p) level. Three possible pyrolytic pathways: the homolytic cleavage of C-alpha-C-beta bond, the homolytic cleavage of C-beta-C-gamma bond and the concerted reactions, were proposed. The activation energies of each reaction step in the pyrolysis processes were calculated and the temperature effect on the pyrolysis processes was analyzed. The calculation results indicate that the homolytic cleavage reaction of C-alpha-C-beta bond and concerted reaction pathway (3) could be the major reaction channels, and the homolytic cleavage reaction of C-beta-C-gamma bond and concerted reaction pathway (1) could be the competitive reaction channels in the pyrolysis processes of beta-1 linkage lignin dimer. The concerted reactions would dominate over the free-radical homolytic reactions at lower temperatures, while at high temperatures the free-radical reaction would dominate over the concerted reactions in the beta-1 linkage lignin dimer pyrolysis processes. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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