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http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10261/3303| Title: | Structural modification of eucalypt pulp lignin in a totally chlorine free bleaching sequence including a laccase-mediator stage |
| Keywords: | 2D-NMR Enzymes Eucalyptus globulus FTIR HMBC HSQC Laccase-mediator system Paper pulp Py-GC/MS TCF bleaching |
| Description: | Modification of eucalypt pulp residual lignin in a totally chlorine free (TCF) bleaching sequence including a laccase-mediator stage, in combination with previous oxygen delignification and subsequent peroxide bleaching, was investigated and compared with a chemical TCF sequence. The enzymatic treatment resulted in a strong oxidative modification, as shown by lignin unit 13C2,6-1H2,6 correlations in HSQC 2D-NMR spectra and presence of oxidized pyrolysis markers. The frequency of inter-unit linkages in residual lignin was also modified, as shown by different side-chain 13C-1H correlations. Moreover, H2,6 correlations with side-chain carbons in HMBC spectra revealed the presence of Cα keto and carboxyl groups in lignin from the oxygen-delignified and especially from the enzymatically-treated pulp, together with normal (Cα-hydroxylated) lignin units. Moreover, the results obtained showed that most of this oxidatively-altered lignin is removed under the alkaline conditions used in the peroxide stage. In this way, the pulp kappa number decreased, and the final residual lignin was more structurally-related to that found before the oxidative stages (although with lower content of resinol structures, and higher presence of aryl-aryl ether structures and carboxyl-bearing terminal units). However, the action of hydrogen peroxide is required to attain the high brightness, over 91% ISO, found in final pulp after the enzyme-containing TCF sequence. Peer reviewed |
| URI: | http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10261/3303 |
| Other Identifiers: | Holzforschung 61(6): 634-646 (2007) 0018-3830 http://hdl.handle.net/10261/3303 http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/HF.2007.096 1437-434X |
| Appears in Collections: | Digital Csic |
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