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AUTHOR
Jukka Kukkola
Biological effects of high molecular weight lignin derivatives
Abstract A number of high molecular weight (HMW) lignin derivatives possessing varied chemical properties were screened for their biological effects in order to obtain more information on the possible structural features of HMW lignin-related effects. The studied compounds were both commercial and in-house extracted lignin derivatives. Bioassays used include reverse electron transport (RET), Vibrio fischeri, Daphnia magna , and juvenile rainbow trout ( Oncorhynchus mykiss) hepatocytes. The studied lignin derivatives inhibited the in vitro systems and luminescence of V. fischeri bacteria to some extent–daphnids were not affected. It seems that, at least in the RET assay, certain pH-dependent…
Characterization of high molecular mass material in ECF and TCF bleaching liquors by Py-GC/MS with and without TMAH methylation
Abstract High molecular weight (HMW) fractions (MW > 1000) of effluents were obtained by ultrafiltration of elemental chlorine-free (ECF) bleaching (O-D-EOP-D-ED) and totally chlorine-free (TCF) bleaching (O-Z-Q-P-Z-Q-P-P) liquors of softwood (Pinus sylvestris) pulp. The fractions were studied by analytical pyrolysis coupled to gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (Py-GC/MS) with and without TMAH (tetramethyl ammonium hydroxide) derivatization. The pyrograms showed a number of pyrolysis products mainly derived from lignin and carbohydrates. The comparison of 4-hydroxyphenyl (H), guaiacyl (G) and syringyl (S) lignin units in both bleaching effluents showed that the G unit content was clearly…