Lignin Conversion Catalysis Transformation to Aromatic Chemicals

This book focuses on the research development of lignin conversion to aromatic compounds. It provides a systematically results for the study of lignin conversion by giving details of Lignin depolymerization, mechanisms, models and technique strategies.

Dr. Chaofeng Zhang received his Ph.D. degree in Physical Chemistry from Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, under the supervision of Professor Feng Wang in 2017. Then he joined in the DICP as an assistant professor. His research interests include catalytic transformation of biomass resource to valuable chemicals and fuels; synthesis of nanostructured heterogeneous catalysts; organic synthesis with photoelectrocatalytic methods.

Professor Feng Wang received his Ph.D. degree in Physical Chemistry from Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 2005, and he joined DICP and was promoted to full professor in 2011. He did postdoctoral research on heterogeneous catalysis at University of California at Berkeley and Catalysis Research Center of Hokkaido University. Currently, he is the director of the Biomass and Bio-energy Division of the Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy (DNL). His research interests include: Heterogeneous C-O band transformation catalysis; synthesis of nanostructured metal and metal oxide catalyst; in situ characterization technique for liquid phase reaction; catalytic biomass conversion to valuable chemicals.

Part I Book introduction
1. Background and overview

Part II Understanding about the lignin
2. Lignin biosynthesis, structure, and physicochemistry properties
3. Lignin isolation and lignin pre-chemical modification
4. Lignin detection, quantification and structure characterization

Part III Lignin depolymerization: scientific questions, challenges and current progress
5. Scientific questions for lignin conversion and new biorefinery
6. Brief summary of methods for lignin depolymerization

Part IV Strategies review on lignin linkages cleavage involved in lignin depolymerization via the inverse disassembly analysis
7. The inverse disassembly analysis (IDA) method for classifying lignin conversion methods/strategies
8. Direct lignin C-Oar, ArO-Ar or C-Ar bonds cleavage without first activation of the adjacent chemical bonds
9. Lignin linkages cleavage beginning with phenolic hydroxyl group dehydrogenation or first aromatic rings activation
10. Lignin linkages cleavage beginning with C alpha-H or ArO-H heterolysis
11. Lignin linkages cleavage beginning with C alpha-OH bond heterolysis
12. Lignin linkages cleavage beginning with the activation of C alpha-H, C alpha-OH or C alpha O-H bonds via non-ionized routes
13. Lignin linkages cleavage beginning with C beta-H direct activation
14. Lignin linkages cleavage beginning with C gamma-H or C gammaO-H direct activation
15. Lignin depolymerization strategies considering fragments condensation