Journal
JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY
Volume 49, Issue 11, Pages 5122-5129Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jf010500r
Keywords
ferulic acid; p-coumaric acid; lignin; wheat straw; rice straw; rye straw; barley straw; maize stems; oil palm frond fiber; fast-growing poplar wood
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A new method has been developed for the quantitative determination of hydroxycinnamic acids participating in ester or ether linkages to the cell wall polymers. The method is based on mild alkaline hydrolysis followed by acid, hydrolysis or mild alkaline hydrolysis, which partially removed esterified phenolic acids, and high-temperature concentrated alkaline treatment, which cleaved both the ester and ether linkages. It was found that traditional mild alkaline hydrolysis and acid hydrolysis released only part of the ester- and ether-linked phenolic acids, respectively. Approximately half (44.0-47.9%) of the total ester-linked p-coumaric acid and 18.2-32.6% of the total esterified ferulic acid remained ester-linked to the mild alkali-soluble lignin polymers, and 55.0-72.0% of the total ether-linked p-coumaric acid and 37.5-53.8% of the total ether-linked ferulic acid remained ether-linked to the solubilized lignin molecules after the acid. hydrolysis. To correct this, a second mild alkaline hydrolysis, of the alkali-soluble lignin preparations and acid hydrolysis of the solubilized lignin fractions, obtained from the first acid hydrolysis of the cell wall materials, was investigated. On the basis of this new method, a majority of the cell wall p-coumaric acid (55.8-81.5%) was found to be ester-linked to cell wall components, mainly to lignin, and about half of the cell wall ferulic acid is etherified through its phenolic oxygen to the cell wall lignin component, whereas the remainder is esterified to the cell wall hemicelluloses and/or lignin in different plant materials.
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