Issue 3, 2013
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Green Chemistry

Deconstruction of lignocellulosic biomass with ionic liquids

Agnieszka Brandt,a   John Gräsvik,b   Jason P. Halletta  and  Tom Welton*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, London, UK
E-mail: t.welton@imperial.ac.uk

b Department of Chemistry, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Abstract

This paper reviews the application of ionic liquids to the deconstruction and fractionation of lignocellulosic biomass, in a process step that is commonly called pretreatment. It is divided into four parts: the first gives background information on lignocellulosic biomass and ionic liquids; the second focuses on the solubility of lignocellulosic biomass (and the individual biopolymers within it) in ionic liquids; the third emphasises the deconstruction effects brought about by the use of ionic liquids as a solvent; the fourth part deals with practical considerations regarding the design of ionic liquid based deconstruction processes.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C2GC36364J
Article type
Critical Review
Submitted
28 Aug 2012
Accepted
18 Dec 2012
First published
19 Dec 2012
This article is Open Access

Green Chem., 2013,15, 550-583

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Deconstruction of lignocellulosic biomass with ionic liquids

A. Brandt, J. Gräsvik, J. P. Hallett and T. Welton, Green Chem., 2013, 15, 550 DOI: 10.1039/C2GC36364J

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