Congratulations to Dr. Ning Li! Ning recently published a paper in Green Chemistry as inside front cover, entitled “An uncondensed lignin depolymerization in the solid state and isolated from lignocellulosic biomass: A mechanistic study”. The paper is openly accessible at https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2018/gc/c8gc00953h. For the first time, this study found that lignin could be depolymerized in the solid state without dissolution and the depolymerized lignin has benzodioxane and Hibbert’s ketone structures.
