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D. Da Silva Perez, A. Castellan, A. Nourmamode, S. Grelier, R. Ruggiero, A. E. H. Machado

Photosensitized Delignification of Residual Lignin and Chemical Pulp from Eucalyptus grandis Wood

Bleached pulps were obtained from a Eucalyptus grandis peroxyformic/formic acid chemical pulp using oxygen, hydrogen peroxide, photosensitizers (methylene blue, Fe (II) 4,4?,4?,4?-tetrasulfophthalocyanine, hemin, hematoporphyrin) and/or TiO₂. Residual lignin of unbleached pulp, isolated and characterized by size exclusion chromatography, ³¹P NMR and thioacidolysis, was used to study the photochemical reactions occurring during the bleaching process. The main reactions were conversion of phenolic aromatic units into carboxylic acids and cleavage of the ?-O-4 ether bonds leading to a depolymerization of the lignin framework into smaller fragments.

Holzforschung, Walter de Gruyter

Print ISSN: 0018-3830
Volume: 56, 11/2002
Pages: 595 - 600

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