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SUBMITTER: Klinger GE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7540407 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Klinger Grace E GE Zhou Yuting Y Foote Juliet A JA Wester Abby M AM Cui Yanbin Y Alherech Manar M Stahl Shannon S SS Jackson James E JE Hegg Eric L EL
ChemSusChem 20200807 17
Lignin may serve as a renewable feedstock for the production of chemicals and fuels if mild, scalable processes for its depolymerization can be devised. The use of small organic thiols represents a bioinspired strategy to cleave the β-O-4 bond, the most common linkage in lignin. In the present study, synthetic β-O-4 linked polymers were treated with organic thiols, yielding up to 90 % cleaved monomer products. Lignin extracted from poplar was also treated with organic thiols resulting in molecul ...[more]