2022-09-28
Lately, Professor Song Guoyong and his team published a review paper entitled “The Temptations from homogeneous linear catechyl lignin” in the top journalTrends in Chemistry(IF="22.448)." This paper reports the latest achievements in the research of C-lignin in the past ten years.
Lignin, one of the largest sources of naturally produced aromatic biopolymer on the planet, is considered as a starting point to generate sustainable chemicals and materials. In 2012, a novel catechyl lignin (C-lignin) bearing caffeyl alcohol subunits and benzodioxane linkages, was discovered in vanilla and cactaceae seed coats. The homogeneity and linearity of C-lignin render it an ‘ideal lignin’ archetype for valorization. Over the past decade, experimental and theoretical advances have been made in C-lignin research on the basis of the temptation of this unique biopolymer. This review is devoted to offering recent advances in C-lignin research, covering biosynthesis, separation and characterization, and valorization. Several next steps to further advance the growing of C-lignin are also prospected and proposed.
The corresponding author of the paper is Professor Song Guoyong, and the first author is Wang Shuizhong, a youth teacher from the College of Materials Science and Technology. With the guidance and help of Professor Lin Jinxing from the College of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, this work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (32030010, 31971607), National Key Research and Development Program of China (2019YFC1906700), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (BLX202133, 2021BLRD01) and the Programme of Introducing Talents of Discipline to Universities(111 project, B13007).
Paper link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2589597422001915
