A recyclable and green biomass-derived deep eutectic solvent (DES) pretreatment was developed to deconstruct the recalcitrant structure of Eucalyptus for further cellulose enzymatic saccharification and lignin valorization.

Lignin is the most abundant natural aromatic feedstock, and the conversion of lignin to value-added chemicals has drawn immense attention in biorefineries. Deep eutectic solvents (DESs) have been applied to...

The chemical transformations of lignin in an acidic DES system.

This review describes recently developed self-transfer hydrogenolysis for the lignin depolymerization using itself as a hydrogen donor and proposes a concept of endogenous hydrogen efficiency to assess the utilization rate of endogenous hydrogen.