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JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY B-BIOLOGY
Volume 158, Issue -, Pages 184-191Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotobiol.2016.02.030
Keywords
Wood; Photodegradation; Raman; FTIR; Colour measurement; Lignin
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada [461,745, 445,200]
- NSERC industrial chair on eco-responsible wood construction (CIRCERB)
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The photodegradation of white spruce by artificial ageing was studied by several techniques: colourimetry, FTIR-ATR and FT-Raman spectroscopy. Samples were exposed at a xenon lamp for 2000 h. Two distinct colour changes were found by colourimetric analysis, yellowing and silvering. These colour modifications indicate the formation of chromophoric structures which supports previous FTIR-ATR experiments. The degradation of lignin to generate the first chromophoric group for yellowing and then the appearance of surface layer cellulose. New carbonyl compounds conjugated with double bond at 1615 cm(-1) are probably the second chromophoric group. The crystallinity index was also calculated and showed an increase of cellulose crystallinity by prior degradation of amorphous cellulose. The FT-Raman analysis confirms the wood sensitivity to photodegradation but the most remarkable results is the increase of fluorescence as a function of time. In softwood lignin, the compound able to produce fluorescence is a free rotating 5-5' linkage of one biphenyl structure. At native state these linkages are not free rotating, this phenomenon means the release of 5-5' linkage of lignin structure by cleavage of both alpha carbon linkages (Norrish type I reaction). These data confirm also the photosensitivity of alpha and beta carbon in lignin and the resistance of 5-5' linkages. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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