Revealing the Reactivity of Individual Chemical Entities in Complex Mixtures: the Chemistry Behind Bio-Oil Upgrading.

ABSTRACT: Bio-oils are precursors for biofuels but are highly corrosive necessitating further upgrading. Furthermore, bio-oil samples are highly complex and represent a broad range of chemistries. They are complex mixtures not simply because of the large number of poly-oxygenated compounds but because each composition can comprise many isomers with multiple functional groups. The use of hyphenated ultrahigh-resolution mass spectrometry affords the ability to separate isomeric species of complex mixtures. Here, we present for the first time, the use of this powerful analytical technique combined with chemical reactivity to gain greater insights into the reactivity of the individual isomeric species of bio-oils. A pyrolysis bio-oils and its esterified bio-oil were analyzed using gas chromatography cou

SUBMITTER: Palacio Lozano DC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9161218 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature