Pyrolysis mechanism of βO4 type lignin model dimer》.pdf

Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis 115 (2015) 103–111 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis j o u rn al h o m e p ag e: w w w. elsev /locate/jaap Pyrolysis mechanism of O 4 type lignin model dimer Lei Chen a , Xiaoning Ye b , Feixian Luo c , Jingai Shao a,∗ , Qiang Lu b,∗∗ , Yang Fang a , Xianhua Wang a , Hanping Chen a a State Key Laboratory of Coal Combustion, Huazhong University of Science Technology, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, PR China b National Engineering Laboratory for Biomass Power Generation Equipment, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, PR China c Beijing National Laboratory of Molecular Sciences (BNLMS) and Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Green Chemistry Center, Peking University, Beijing 100871, PR China a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: A O 4 type lignin dimer compound was synthesized, namely 1-(4-methoxyphenyl)-2-(2- Received 3 February 2015 methoxyphenoxy) ethanol. To elucidate its pyrolysis mechanism, analytical pyrolysis-gas chromatog- Received in revised form 23 June 2015 raphy/mass spectrometry (Py-GC/MS) experiments were performed to reveal the distribution of the Accepted 11 July 2015 pyrolytic products under different temperatures. Concurrently, density functional theory (DFT) calcula- Available online 19 July 2015 tions were conducted to