The importance of ester cleavage in the butylamine pretreatment of hybrid poplar
Butylamine is an effective in-and-out pretreatment solvent for hybrid poplar. It penetrates the cell walls and breaks ester cross-linkages, facilitating lignin release and improving enzymatic digestion.
Authors
- A. S. Krishnamoorthy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8396-0223)
- Chang Dou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9871-2641)
- Joseph M. Palasz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9825-6981)
- Emine Akyüz Turumtay (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1504-4810)
- Edward E. K. Baidoo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5787-1219)
- Raynald Giovine (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7208-6929)
- Hemant Choudhary (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2847-3080)
- Venkataramana R. Pidatala (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2637-3983)
- Blake A. Simmons (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1332-1810)
- Thomas R. Lewis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1937-9455)
- Ning Sun (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9689-9430)
- Xueli Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7532-0066)
Institutions
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (US)
- Sandia National Laboratories California (US)
- Joint BioEnergy Institute (US)
- University of California, Berkeley (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Green Chemistry
- Published
- 2025-01-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1039/d5gc01795e
- Citations
- 4
- Primary Topic
- Biofuel production and bioconversion
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.70
Funders
- U.S. Department of Defense
- U.S. Department of Energy
- Office of Science
- Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
- National Nuclear Security Administration
- Biological and Environmental Research
- Office of Energy Efficiency
- Sandia National Laboratories
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory