How to turn waste wood into industrial treasure

Cleaving bonds can transform the abundant material lignin into renewable feedstocks.

The unwieldy mass left after the usable parts of wood have been stripped away now yields a useful molecule, thanks to a new chemical treatment¹.

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Nature 598, 10 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02585-5

Subbotina, E. et al. Nature Chem. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-021-00783-2 (2021).
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