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Hydrogenolysis

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Methods in Lignin Chemistry

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Abstract

The term “hydrogenation” is often used indiscriminately and imprecisely to describe a number of processes involving reactions of molecular hydrogen. In characterizing the reactions of hydrogen with lignin, the pertinent terms may be defined as follows:

  • Hydrogenation: the addition of hydrogen (H2) to a multiple bond

  • Hydrogenolysis: a process in which cleavage of a carbon-carbon or carbon-hetero atom single bond is accomplished by reaction with hydrogen

Depending on the reaction conditions and catalyst, one or combinations of the foregoing processes may occur during the reaction of hydrogen with lignin.

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Sakakibara, A. (1992). Hydrogenolysis. In: Lin, S.Y., Dence, C.W. (eds) Methods in Lignin Chemistry. Springer Series in Wood Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74065-7_24

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