Chemical characterization of eucalypt pulp lignin during totally chlorine free bleaching including a laccase-mediator stage: 2D-NMR, FTIR and Py-GC/MS of enzymatically-isolated residual lignins.

Chemical modification of residual lignin isolated from eucalypt pulp after the different stages of a TCF sequence including a laccase-mediator stage was investigated by FTIR, Py-GC/MS and 2D-NMR (using HSQC, HSQC-TOCSY and HMBC). The enzymatic treatment resulted in strong oxidative modification of a lignin fraction, which could be removed under alkaline conditions enabling a final increase of brightness by hydrogen peroxide. In addition to changes in the ratios between syringyl and guaiacyl units and between β-O-4, syringaresinol and phenylcoumaran substructures, formation of acetosyringone and muconate terminal units were observed during the TCF sequence due to oxidative breakdown of lignin side-chains and aromatic nuclei respectively.

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Main Authors: Ibarra, David, Chávez, M.I., Rencoret, Jorge, Río Andrade, José Carlos del, Gutiérrez Suárez, Ana, Camarero, Susana, Martínez, María Jesús, Jiménez-Barbero, Jesús, Martínez, Ángel T.
Format: comunicación de congreso biblioteca
Language:English
Published: 2006-08-27
Subjects:Eucalyptus, Pulp, Lignin, TCF bleaching, Laccases,
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/86420
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