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Inside Cover: Catalytic Biorefining of Plant Biomass to Non‐Pyrolytic Lignin Bio‐Oil and Carbohydrates through Hydrogen Transfer Reactions (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 33/2014)
Author(s) -
Ferrini Paola,
Rinaldi Roberto
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201406305
Subject(s) - biorefining , lignin , biomass (ecology) , chemistry , catalysis , organic chemistry , hydrolysis , chemical engineering , pulp and paper industry , biorefinery , raw material , biology , agronomy , engineering
Lignin solvolytically released from biomass may be of much lower molecular weights than currently believed. In their Communication on page 8634 ff. , R. Rinaldi and P. Ferrini exploit this feature for establishing a method that enables the isolation of lignin as a depolymerized oil and yields pulps amenable to enzymatic hydrolysis. The lignin oil is highly susceptible to hydrogenation under mild conditions, and therefore, a unique pathway for lignin valorization by heterogeneous catalysis has been established.