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RSC ADVANCES
Volume 4, Issue 53, Pages 27971-27978Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c4ra02968b
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- VNIT, Nagpur
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A one-pot greener approach towards lignin depolymerization/hydrodeoxygenation is presented. Water was used as a reaction medium with methanol as a source of reductive equivalents of hydrogen in inert atmosphere. Zeolite HZSM-5 and Ni-doped HZSM-5 were synthesized at low temperature (95 degrees C), characterized and used as a hydrodeoxygenation catalyst at 220 degrees C. Lignin conversion up to 96.8-98.5% was observed with highly reduced char formation (<1%). IR, GC-MS and ESI-MS spectroscopy were used to characterize the conversion products. The products were mainly comprised of alkyl substituted phenols (15.4 wt%) found as water soluble products. The water insoluble products showed mostly formation of oligomers with acyclic (4.1 wt%) and cyclic (1.5 wt%) compounds. Acyclic compounds included up to 2.8 wt% of open chain C-12-C-19 hydrocarbons. ESI-MS showed that the molecular weight of the products formed during solvolytic depolymerization/hydrodeoxygenation of lignin were in the range of m/z ca. 60 to ca. 1000. A mechanistic hypothesis on formation of monomeric products is also presented.
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