Revealing the structural inhomogeneity of lignins from sweet sorghum stem by successive alkali extractions

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Volumn 61, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 4226-4235

  Sun, Shao Long ^a   Wen, Jia Long ^a   Ma, Ming Guo ^a   Li, Ming Fei ^a   Sun, Run Cang ^a,b  

^a BEIJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

2D HSQC; lignin; structural inhomogeneity; sweet sorghum stem

Indexed keywords

2D-HSQC; ALKALI EXTRACTION; ALKALI TREATMENT; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; HYDROXYCINNAMIC ACIDS; LIGNIN FRAGMENTS; STRUCTURAL INHOMOGENEITIES; SWEET SORGHUM STEMS;

ETHERS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS;

LIGNIN;

4-COUMARIC ACID; ALKALI; COUMARIC ACID; FERULIC ACID; LIGNIN; PARA COUMARIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PLANT STEM; SORGHUM;

ALKALIES; COUMARIC ACIDS; LIGNIN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PLANT STEMS; SORGHUM; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED;

EID: 84877262263     PISSN: 00218561     EISSN: 15205118     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jf400824p     Document Type: Article

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