Understanding the impact of ionic liquid pretreatment on eucalyptus

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2010-01-01

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Persil Çetinkol, Özgül
Cheng, Gang
Kent, Mıchael
Knıerım, Bernard
Auer, Manfred
Wemmer, Davıd
Pelton, Jeffery
Sımmons, Blake
Melnıchenko, Yurı
Holmes, Bradley
Ralph, John

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Background: The development of cost-competitive biofuels necessitates the realization of advanced biomass pretreatment technologies. Ionic liquids provide a basis for one of the most promising pretreatment technologies and are known to allow effective processing of cellulose and some biomass species. Results & discussion: Here, we demonstrate that the ionic liquid 1-ethyl-3-methyl imidazolium acetate, [C2mim][OAc], induces structural changes at the molecular level in the cell wall of Eucalyptus globulus. Deacetylation of xylan, acetylation of the lignin units, selective removal of guaiacyl units (increasing the syringyl:guaiacyl ratio) and decreased β-ether content were the most prominent changes observed. Scanning electron microscopy images of the plant cell wall sections reveal extensive swelling during [C2mim][OAc] pretreatment. X-ray diffraction measurements indicate a change in cellulose crystal structure from cellulose I to cellulose II after [C2mim][OAc] pretreatment. Enzymatic saccharification of the pretreated material produced increased sugar yields and improved hydrolysis kinetics after [C2mim][OAc] pretreatment. Conclusion: These results provide new insight into the mechanism of ionic liquid pretreatment and reaffirm that this approach may be promising for the production of cellulosic biofuels from woody biomass

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/83521
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.4155/bfs.09.5

Journal

Biofuels

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https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.4155/bfs.09.5

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Department of Chemistry, Article

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Ö. Persil Çetinkol et al., “Understanding the impact of ionic liquid pretreatment on eucalyptus,” Biofuels, pp. 33–46, 2010, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/83521.