7382-59-4Relevant articles and documents
Are quinone methides responsible for yellowing of paper in light?
Dolenc, Jozica,Sket, Boris,Strlic, Matija
, p. 5669 - 5671 (2002)
Irradiation of tetrahydrofuran solutions of quinone methide 1 at 350 nm resulted in the formation of yellow oligomeric products and guaiacol. The rate constants determined for the disappearance of the starting compound and those of guaiacol formation show
Iridium-catalysed primary alcohol oxidation and hydrogen shuttling for the depolymerisation of lignin
Lancefield, Christopher S.,Teunissen, Lucas W.,Weckhuysen, Bert M.,Bruijnincx, Pieter C. A.
, p. 3214 - 3221 (2018/07/31)
Lignin is a potentially abundant renewable resource for the production of aromatic chemicals, however its selective depolymerisation is challenging. Here, we report a new catalytic system for the depolymerisation of lignin to novel, non-phenolic monoaromatic products based on the selective β-O-4 primary alcohol dehydrogenation with a Cp?Ir-bipyridonate catalyst complex under basic conditions. We show that this system is capable of promoting the depolymerisation of model compounds and isolated lignins via a sequence of selective primary alcohol dehydrogenation, retro-aldol (Cα-Cβ) bond cleavage and in situ stabilisation of the aldehyde products by transfer (de)hydrogenation to alcohols and carboxylic acids. This method was found to give good to excellent yields of cleavage products with both etherified and free-phenolic lignin model compounds and could be applied to real lignin to generate a range of novel non-phenolic monomers including diols and di-acids. We additionally show, by using the same catalyst in a convergent, one-pot procedure, that these products can be selectively channelled towards a single di-acid product, giving much simpler product mixtures as a result.
Method for synthesizing guaiacyl glycerol-beta-guaiacyl ether from lignin beta-O-4 linkage dimer model compound
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, (2017/08/25)
The invention provides a method for synthesizing guaiacyl glycerol-beta-guaiacyl ether from a lignin beta-O-4 linkage dimer model compound. The content of beta-O-4 linkages in all linkages of lignin is highest and about 40-60%, so research of the beta-O-4 linkage lignin model compound plays an important role in research of the structure of lignin and the reaction mechanism of lignin in reaction. The method is simple, reaction conditions are mild, the yield is high, and the production period is short.