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Oxidation of lignin model compounds by organic and transition metal-based electron transfer mediators
Dominic Rochefort1, Robert Bourbonnais, Dónal Leech
1Département de chimie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada. dominic.rochefort@umontreal.ca
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|July 12, 2002
Abstract:
We have studied the oxidation of lignin model compounds by organic and transition metal-based mediators using either an enzyme or an electrolysis cell as the mediator oxidizing agent. Electrolysis of inorganic mediator seems a promising technology for pulp delignification.