Pere Picart, Haifeng Liu, Philipp M Grande, Nico Anders, Leilei Zhu, Jürgen Klankermayer, Walter Leitner, Pablo Domínguez de María, Ulrich Schwaneberg, Anett Schallmey
Lignin is a biomass-derived aromatic polymer that has been identified as a potential renewable source of aromatic chemicals and other valuable compounds. The valorization of lignin, however, represents a great challenge due to its high inherent functionalization, what compromises the identification of chemical routes for its selective depolymerization. In this work, an in vitro biocatalytic depolymerization process is presented, that was applied to lignin samples obtained from beech wood through OrganoCat pretreatment, resulting in a mixture of lignin-derived aromatic monomers...
August 2017: Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology