Tuning the lignin oil OH-content with Ru and Pd catalysts during lignin hydrogenolysis on birch wood

S Van den Bosch; W Schutyser; S-F Koelewijn; T Renders; C M Courtin; B F Sels

doi:10.1039/c5cc04025f

Tuning the lignin oil OH-content with Ru and Pd catalysts during lignin hydrogenolysis on birch wood

Chem Commun (Camb). 2015 Aug 28;51(67):13158-61. doi: 10.1039/c5cc04025f.

Authors

S Van den Bosch¹, W Schutyser, S-F Koelewijn, T Renders, C M Courtin, B F Sels

Affiliation

¹ Center for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis, KU Leuven, Kasteelpark Arenberg 23, 3001 Heverlee, Belgium. bert.sels@biw.kuleuven.be.

PMID: 26086373
DOI: 10.1039/c5cc04025f

Abstract

Liquid reductive processing of birch wood in the presence of commercial Ru/C or Pd/C catalysts yields about 50% of a select set of phenolic monomers and a variety of phenolic di- and oligomers, next to a solid carbohydrate pulp. Changing the catalyst from Ru/C to Pd/C drastically increases the OH-content of the lignin-derived products, in particular for the phenolic monomers.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Betula / chemistry*
Catalysis
Hydroxides / chemistry*
Lignin / chemistry*
Palladium / chemistry*
Ruthenium / chemistry*
Wood / chemistry*

Substances

Hydroxides
Palladium
Ruthenium
Lignin
hydroxide ion