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Lignin Contribution To The Global Carbon Pool: Investigating The Abiotic Modification Of Lignin By Reactive Oxygen Species, Derek Charles Waggoner
Lignin Contribution To The Global Carbon Pool: Investigating The Abiotic Modification Of Lignin By Reactive Oxygen Species, Derek Charles Waggoner
Chemistry & Biochemistry Theses & Dissertations
Evidence suggests that reactive oxygen species (ROS), largely generated through photochemical processes, are important in transforming the chemical composition of the large pool of terrestrially-derived dissolved organic matter (DOM) exported from land to water annually. However, due to the challenges inherent in isolating the effects of individual ROS on DOM composition, the role of ROS in the photochemical alteration of DOM remains poorly characterized. The main focus of the studies within this dissertation aim to more thoroughly characterize the alterations to lignin, used as an analog for terrestrial DOM, resulting from reactions with ROS.
To investigate the possibility that the …