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Production and Emerging Applications of Bioactive Oligosaccharides from Biomass Hemicelluloses by Hydrothermal Processing

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Hemicelluloses are the second most abundant heterogeneous polysaccharides in nature. Among the several treatments that can be used for the solubilization of hemicelluloses to produce oligosaccharides from lignocellulosic biomass, the autohydrolysis reaction is the most widely used. Under suitable conditions, autohydrolysis enables high ligosaccharides yields, however this reaction is not selective and undesired compounds are also present in the reaction media. Because of this, the autohydrolysis media has to be subjected to further processing to improve the purity of oligosaccharide hydrolysate. The chemical and structural characterization of the solubilized products from hemicelluloses is an important aspect as it allows to know the application for which they are more suitable. Oligosaccharides from hemicelluloses can find applications in several fields such as biomedical, food, and biomaterials.

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Abbreviations

ABE:

Acetone-butanol-ethanol

AEC:

Anion-exchange chromatography

ArOS:

Arabino-oligosaccharides

DAD:

Diode array detector

DP:

Degrees of polymerization

ER:

Eucalyptus residues

ESI-MS:

Electrospray ionisation mass spectrometry

GalOS:

Galacto-oligosaccharides

GFC:

Gel filtration chromatography

GlcOS:

Gluco-oligosaccharides

GPC:

Gel permeation chromatography

HMF:

Hydroxymethylfurfural

HPAEC:

High-performance anion-exchange chromatography

HPILC:

High-performance ionic liquid chromatography

HPLC:

High-performance liquid chromatography

HPSEC:

High-performance size exclusion chromatography

HSQC:

Heteronuclear single quantum correlation

kx:

First-order kinetic coefficients

LCM:

Lignocellulosic material

LSR:

Liquid-to-solid ratio

MALDI-TOF-MS:

Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry

MOS:

Manno-oligosaccharides

NMR:

Nuclear magnetic resonance

NREL:

American National Renewable Energy Laboratory

NVC:

Nonvolatile compounds

OP:

Olive tree pruning

RI:

Refractory index

SEC:

Size-exclusion chromatography

TPS:

3-(trimethylsilyl)-propanesulfonic acid sodium salt

WS:

Wheat straw

XnFAST:

Fast reacting xylan

XnSLOW:

Slow reacting xylan

XOS:

Xylooligosaccharides

XOSH:

High molecular weight xylooligomers

XOSL:

Low molecular weight xylooligomers

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Izaskun Dávila would like to thank the Department of Agriculture, Fishing and Food of the Basque Government (scholarship of young researchers training). Beatriz Gullón and Patricia Gullón thank the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (Reference FPDI-2013-17341, FPDI-2013-18748).

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    Izaskun Dávila, Jalel Labidi & Patricia Gullón

  3. Faculty of Science, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Vigo (Campus Ourense), As Lagoas, 32004, Ourense, Spain

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Gullón, B., Dávila, I., García-Torreiro, M., Yáñez, R., Labidi, J., Gullón, P. (2017). Production and Emerging Applications of Bioactive Oligosaccharides from Biomass Hemicelluloses by Hydrothermal Processing. In: Ruiz, H., Hedegaard Thomsen, M., Trajano, H. (eds) Hydrothermal Processing in Biorefineries. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56457-9_10

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