Synopses & Reviews
This book examines the fundamentals and applications of novel oxidants including oxygen and peroxide. It presents a variety of approaches including enzymes, organometallic systems, and polyoxometallates. There are a number of critical review chapters highlighting the fundamental chemistry and efforts of the research community to activate and catalyze oxygen and peroxide delignification.
Table of Contents
Preface
Fundamentals of Oxygen-Peroxide Delignification Processes
1. Catalysis and Activation of Oxygen and Peroxide Delignification of Chemical Pulps: A Review, Miro Suchy and Dimitris S. Argyropoulos
2. A Review of Lighnin Model Compound Reactions under Oxygen Bleaching Conditions, Roberty A. Northey
3. Chemistry of TCF-Bleaching with Oxygen and Hydrogen Peroxide, Goran Gellerstedt and Liming Zhang
4. Lignin Reactions during Oxygen Delignification of Various Alkaline Pulps, Tarja L. Tamminen and Bo R. Hortling
5. Breaking the Oxygen Delignification Barrier: Lignin Reactivity and Inactivity, Lucian A. Lucia et al
6. The Reactions of Peroxides with Lignin and Lignin Model Compounds, John F. Kadla and H-m. Chang
7. A Detailed Study of the Alkaline Oxidative Degradation of a Residual Kraft Lignin Model Compound, Lubo Jurasek, Yujun Sun, and Dimitiris S. Argyropoulos
8. Improving Oxygen Delignification with Peroxymonosulphate: Fundamentals, Jean, Bouchard, Richard Berry, and Vince Magnotta
9. Bleaching of High-Yield Lignocellulosic Pulps with Peroxygen Reagents, George X. Pan, Cameron Thomson, and Gordon J. Leary
10. Intrastage Recycling of Effluents from Activated Peroxide, Peracetic Acid, and Ozone Bleaching, J. Jakara and A. Paren
11. Oxidative Degradation of Dimeric Lignin Model Compounds, Carmen Canevali et al
Biomimetic Systems
12. A biomimetic Approach to Lignin Degradation: Metalloporphyrins Catalyzed Oxidation of Lignin and Lignin Model Compounds, Claudia Crestini, Pietro Tagliatesta, and Raffaele Saladino
13. One-Electron Oxidation Activity of Dentritic Porphyrin in Nonaqueous Media, Hiroyuki Wariishi et al
14. A Manganese-Based Catalyst for Alkaline Peroxide Bleaching, J. Odermatt
15. Involvement of Oxygen-Derived Free Radicals in Chemical and Biochemical Degradation of Lignin, Torbjorn Reitberger et al