화학공학소재연구정보센터
Energy & Fuels, Vol.8, No.2, 402-407, 1994
Is There Any Order in the Structure of Lignin
The biopolymer lignin, an important constituent of terrestrial plants whose chemistry and reactivity are of great importance in many areas of energy research and industry, is thought to be biosynthesized through a random polymerization. Computer-assisted structure elucidation and molecular simulations presented in this report suggest that the biopolymer is not random but may have an helical structure that is characteristic of many naturally synthesized molecules.