Combined iron (III) chloride/sodium citrate with enzymatic hydrolysis for xylo-oligosaccharides and monosaccharides production from poplar.

Currently, the production of xylo-oligosaccharides (XOS) from lignocelluloses by chelating system hydrolysis has not been investigated. Herein, iron (III) chloride/sodium citrate (IC/SC) chelating system hydrolysis and xylanase hydrolysis were used to produce XOS from poplar. Then, the delignification of IC/SC-hydrolyzed poplar was performed by p-toluenesulfonic acid (p-TsOH) pretreatment to increase the accessibility of cellulase. The results demonstrated that 42.3% of XOS with an extremely low by-product (xylose/XOS = 0.11) was produced from poplar by 50 mM IC/SC hydrolysis (molar ratio of 1:1, 170 °C, 60 min) and xylanase hydrolysis. The second step IC/SC hydrolysis and xylanase hydrolysis of poplar increased the yield of XOS to 51.3%. Finally, the glucose yield of p-TsOH-pretreated poplar (60% p-TsOH, 70 °C, 30 min) was greatly increased from 37.5% to 83.8% by cellulase hydrolysis with Tween 80 addition. The novel strategy proposed in this work was feasible for XOS and monosaccharides production from poplar.

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