Levoglucosan formation mechanisms during cellulose pyrolysis
Abstract
Mechanism study of levoglucosan formation during cellulose pyrolysis. Free-radical mechanism, glucose mechanism, and levoglucosan chain-end mechanism. Levoglucosan formation is endothermic. Levoglucosan chain-end mechanism is the most preferred pathway for levoglucosan formation.
- Publication:
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Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis
- Pub Date:
- November 2013
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 2013JAAP..104...19Z
- Keywords:
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- Levoglucosan;
- Cellulose pyrolysis;
- Density functional theory