This invention discloses a method for extracting
lignin with high phenolic hydroxyl content, belonging to the fields of
biomass refining and
green chemistry. The method involves pretreating
plant fiber raw materials with bio-enzymes to obtain a
solid residue; then, the
solid residue is extracted and purified using a catalytic eutectic
solvent to obtain the
lignin with high phenolic hydroxyl content. A two-step strategy of "
enzyme pretreatment
exposure + catalytic DES directional
bond breaking" is employed to extract
lignin with high phenolic hydroxyl content from
plant fibers.
Enzyme pretreatment effectively breaks down the
biomass degradation barrier, removing most of the carbohydrates and fully exposing the lignin. This not only results in a lignin yield of over 90% for subsequent DES extraction, but more importantly, it creates an optimal
interaction interface for the DES catalyst to selectively break the β-O-4
ether bonds of lignin molecules, thereby generating a large number of phenolic hydroxyl groups in situ, significantly increasing the lignin content to far exceed that of lignin extracted by traditional methods and conventional DES, and producing a product with excellent reactivity.