Abstract
Dissolved aromatic substances in water suspensions of unbleached and peroxide‐bleached spruce thermomechanical pulp (TMP) were isolated by sorption on XAD‐8 resin and fractionated into lignin and oligomeric aromatic substances (OAS). The fractions were characterized by chromatographic (GC and HP‐SEC) and spectrometric (FT‐IR, 13C‐NMR, GC‐MS) methods, as well as by GC after direct on‐line pyrolysis and thermally assisted hydrolysis and methylation. The dissolved lignin in unbleached TMP water was structurally similar to spruce milled‐wood lignin (MWL), but its average molar‐mass was lower and the mass distribution more narrow. The oligomeric aromatic substances included phenolic dimers, trimers, and tetramers that were structurally different from those of MWL. After peroxide bleaching the amount of dissolved semipolar (MTBE) extractives and oligomeric aromatic substances was much lower. The amount of dissolved lignin from wood fibers was, on the contrary, much higher. The lignin released from TMP after bleaching was extensively oxidized and had a slightly higher average molar‐mass than lignin released from unbleached TMP.
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