Model Pathways for Gaseous Products of Lignin Thermolysis

Wednesday, November 11, 2009: 4:50 PM
Hermitage D (Gaylord Opryland Hotel)

Preetinder S. Virk, Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

Monoaromatic compounds containing moieties akin to those found in the enzyme-initiated dehydrogenative randomly- polymerized conifeyl-, coumaryl-, and sinapyl-alcohol backbone of lignin were thermolysed to mimic possible pathways by which its gaseous thermolysis products arise.
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