“…Namely, the obtained kinetic model describes two intrinsic reaction pathways for the levoglucosan (LG) dehydration into the final products, characterized by the same E-value but with different "frequency" factors, which can be represented by Equation ( 21): (21) Therefore, reaction B→C, within the consecutive reaction steps (Equation ( 15)), represents the dehydration of LG which proceeds through two intrinsic steps, described by the Cn kinetic model with parameters listed in Table 4. The qualitative approach for determining the autocatalytic strength can represent an estimate of the ratio kcat/T* (where logkcat = 1.074 ≝ kcat = 11.858, and T* is the peak temperature at the maximum rate of B→C reaction at the different heating rates), and it is distributed between 0 and 1 [93]. Considering the T * values at the various heating rates, β (5.1 K/min: 324 °C, 10.5 K/min: 335 °C, 21.5 K/min: 348 °C, and 32.8 K/min: 352 °C), the ratios kcat/T * between 2 × 10 −2 and 1.9 × 10 −2 were obtained.…”