Abstract The thermal degradation reactivities of hemicellulose and cellulose in wood cell walls are significantly different from the behavior respective isolated components. Furthermore, Japanese cedar ( Cryptomeria japonica , a softwood) is distinct that beech Fagus crenata hardwood). Lignin uronic acid believed to play crucial roles governing this behavior. In study, effects ball milling for ...

Efforts to generate organomanganese reagents under ball-milling conditions have led the serendipitous discovery that manganese metal can mediate reductive dimerization of arylidene malonates. The newly uncovered process has been optimized and its mechanism explored using CV measurements, radical trapping experiments, EPR spectroscopy, solution control reactions. This unique reactivity also be t...