The Inside Cover picture shows that
lignins isolated from hardwood, softwood, and grass materials can be effectively hydrocracked to aromatics over W
2C over activated car
bon (W
2C/AC). The effects of
botanical species and fractionation methods on
lignin structure and the catalytic activity are studied in detail. W
2C/AC exhibits high activity in deconstruction of ether
linkages between aromatic units so that high yields of
liquid oils can be obtained. The results are beneficial for better understanding the yield and distribution of pheno
lic products in relation to the structure of
lignin, and provide a highly selective strategy for the cleavage of aryl ether
bonds with non-noble metal catalyst. More details can be found in the Full Paper by Guo et al. on
page 523 in Issue 3, 2017 (DOI:
10.1002/cssc.201601326).