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CHEMICAL SCIENCE
Volume 10, Issue 16, Pages 4458-4468Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c9sc00691e
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- Special Fund for Basic Scientific Research of Central Colleges, South-Central University for Nationalities [CZR18001, YCZW15100]
- Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province [2017CFB432]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21872175, 21690080, 21690083, 21878288]
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Selective hydrogenolysis of the C-aryl-O bonds in lignin is a key strategy for the generation of fuels and chemical feedstocks from biomass. Currently, hydrogenolysis has been mainly conducted using hydrogen, which is flammable and not sustainable or economical. Herein, an external hydrogen-free process for aryl ethers hydrogenolysis in lignin models and dioxasolv lignin over nickel nanoparticles supported on Al2O3, is reported. Kinetic studies reveal that the transfer hydrogenolysis activity of the three model compounds decreased in the following order: benzyl phenyl ether (a-O-4), 2-phenylethyl phenyl ether (b-O-4) and diphenyl ether (4-O-5), which linearly corresponds to their binding energies and the activation energies. The main reaction route for the three model compounds was the cleavage of the ether bonds to produce aromatic alkanes and phenol, and the latter was further reduced to cyclohexanol. Dioxasolv lignin depolymerization results exhibit a significant Caryl-O decrease over the Ni nanoparticles supported on Al2O3 with iso-propanol as the hydrogen source through 2D-HSQC-NMR analysis, which confirmed the transfer hydrogenolysis conclusion in the model study. This work provides an economical and environmentally-friendly method for the selective cleavage of lignin and lignin model compounds into value-added chemicals.
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