Journal
GREEN CHEMISTRY
Volume 12, Issue 9, Pages 1640-1647Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c0gc00181c
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- National Science Foundation, Center for Enabling New Technology [CHE-0650456]
- National Science Foundation, UCSB Partnership for International Research and Education in Electron Chemistry and Catalysis at Interfaces [OISE-0530268]
- American Chemical Society [46828-AC3]
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A novel approach to disassembling biomass-derived lignin into processible units is described. This transformation is achieved in supercritical methanol, using a Cu-doped porous metal oxide as the catalyst, at a relatively mild temperature (300 degrees C). Hydrogen transfer from methanol to an organosolv lignin results in the complete hydrogenolysis of phenyl ether bonds, coupled with the hydrogenation of aromatic rings. The product is a complex mixture composed principally of monomeric substituted cyclohexyl derivatives with greatly reduced oxygen content and negligible aromatics. Notably, no char formation was observed. We also describe operational indices based on the (1)H NMR spectra that facilitate holistic evaluation of the product distribution in this and other biomass transformations.
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