Neutral H
2O
2 bleaching of various unbleached pulps under the mild conditions was carried out.
A portion of lignin in the pulps was oxidatively degraded to the water-soluble products. The increased color removal observed when high-yield pulps were bleached, demonstrates the lebelling-off effect encountered in H
2O
2 bleaching. But, the brightness of chemical pulps increased up to about 70% during the bleaching.
Milled wood lignin and dioxane lignin, isolated from ground pulp or chemical ground pulp, were degraded with H
2O
2 in a neutral homogeneous system at 20°C. The change of absorbance at 350 nm or 457 nm of the lignins shaves the levelling-off in brightness gain, being the same as the bleaching of high-yield pulps. But, the absorbance of thiolignin and lignosulfonate at the same wave length decreased during H
2O
2 treatment. The chromophores in all lignin preparations employed were more rapidly degraded than the aromatic nuclei.
Attempts are reported in this report to characterize the reaction of model compounds with H
2O
2 at pH 7.0. The formation of colored products from
β-aryl ketones in model compounds employed was identified. 2-Methoxy-
p-quinone and 2-methoxy-
p-hydroquinone were important intermediates in the formation of colored materials from vanillin or acetovanillone.
Based on the above-mentioned results, it can be concluded that the levelling-off in the brightness gain of high-yield pulps by neutral H
2O
2 bleaching is at least due to the formation and/or the stabilization of new H
2O
2-resistant chromophores via
p-quinone or
p-quinoid structures. It is also suggested that the quinoid structures are formed from color-contributing carbonyl groups in the reaction of lignin with H
2O
2.
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