Highly efficient, NiAu-catalyzed hydrogenolysis of lignin into phenolic chemicals

Jiaguang Zhang; Hiroyuki Asakura; Jeaphianne van Rijn; Jun Yang; Paul Duchesne; Bin Zhang; Xi Chen; Peng Zhang; Mark Saeys; Ning Yan

doi:10.1039/C3GC42589D

Highly efficient, NiAu-catalyzed hydrogenolysis of lignin into phenolic chemicals†

Jiaguang Zhang,^a Hiroyuki Asakura,^b Jeaphianne van Rijn,^a Jun Yang,^c Paul Duchesne,^d Bin Zhang,^a Xi Chen,^a Peng Zhang,^d Mark Saeys*^a and Ning Yan*^a

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^a Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore, 4 Engineering Drive 4, Singapore
E-mail: ning.yan@nus.edu.sg, saeys@nus.edu.sg

^b Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Nagoya University, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Japan

^c State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Complex Systems, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

^d Department of Chemistry and Institute for Research in Materials, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

Abstract

A highly efficient, stable NiAu catalyst that exhibits unprecedented low temperature activity in lignin hydrogenolysis was for the first time developed, leading to the formation of 14 wt% aromatic monomers from organosolv lignin at 170 °C in pure water.

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Highly efficient, NiAu-catalyzed hydrogenolysis of lignin into phenolic chemicals†

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