circular plastic economy

Schematic illustration of different strategies to process lignocellulose. (a) Two industrial routes of processing woodmeal, namely, the pulp industry or the lignin oil industry. (b) Mechanisms of hydrogen-atom transfer to break the ?-O-4 motif, which is abundant in native lignin. (c) Overview of our strategy to first depolymerize native lignin and then repolymerize the resulting oligomers using dynamic covalent cross-linkers. Credit: ACS Central Science (2022). DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.2c01257
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