AU719140B2 - Multi-component system for modifying, degrading or bleaching lignin, lignin-containing materials or similar substances and processes for its use - Google Patents

Multi-component system for modifying, degrading or bleaching lignin, lignin-containing materials or similar substances and processes for its use Download PDF

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AU719140B2
AU719140B2 AU55603/98A AU5560398A AU719140B2 AU 719140 B2 AU719140 B2 AU 719140B2 AU 55603/98 A AU55603/98 A AU 55603/98A AU 5560398 A AU5560398 A AU 5560398A AU 719140 B2 AU719140 B2 AU 719140B2
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A multicomponent system for modifying, decomposing or bleaching lignin, lignin-containing materials or similar substances contains (a) if required at least one oxidation catalyst, (b) at least one appropriate oxidising agent, and (c) at least one mediator characterised in that it is selected from the group composed of hydroxypyridine, aminopyridine, hydroxyquinoline, aminoquinoline, hydroxyisoquinoline, aminoisoquinoline, with nitroso or mercapto substituents at the ortho or para position with respect to the hydroxy or amino groups. Also disclosed are tautomers of said compounds, as well as their salts, ethers and esters.

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IWO -98/26127 PCT/EP97/06802 Multi-component system for modifying, degrading or bleaching lignin, lignin-containing materials or similar substances and processes for its use The present invention relates to a multi-component system for modifying, degrading or bleaching lignin, lignin-containing materials or similar substances and to processes for its use.
The sulfate and the sulfite process are to be mentioned as the processes currently chiefly used for pulp production. With both processes, pulp is produced by cooking and under pressure. The sulfate process operates with the addition of NaOH and Na 2 S, while Ca(HSO 3 2
SO,
is used in the sulfite process.
All the processes have the main aim of removing the lignin from the plant material, wood or annual plants used.
The lignin which, with the cellulose and the hemicellulose, makes up the main constituent of the plant material (stem or trunk) must be removed, since otherwise it is not possible to produce papers which are nonyellowing and can be subjected to high mechanical stress.
Wood pulp production processes operate with stone grinders (mechanical wood pulp) or with refiners (TMP), which defibrillate the wood by grinding after appropriate pretreatment (chemical, thermal or chemical-thermal).
These wood pulps still comprise most of the lignin. They are used above all for the production of newspapers, illustrated journals and the like.
The possibilities of the use of enzymes for degradation of lignin have been researched for some years. The action mechanism of such lignolytic systems was clarified only a few years ago, when it became possible to obtain adequate amounts of enzyme with the white rot fungus Phanerochaete chrysosporium under suitable growing conditions with additions of inductor.
The previously unknown lignin peroxidases and manganese 2 peroxidases were discovered by this research. Since Phanerochaete chrysosporium is a very effective degrader of lignin, attempts were made to isolate its enzymes and to use them in a suitable form for lignin degradation.
However, this was not successful, since it was found that the enzymes lead above all to repolymerization of the lignin and not to degradation thereof.
Similar circumstances also apply to other lignolytic enzyme species, such as laccases, which degrade the lignin oxidatively with the aid of oxygen instead of hydrogen peroxide. It was found that similar processes occur in all cases. In fact, free radicals are formed which react with one another again and thus lead to polymerization.
There are thus currently only processes which operate with in vivo systems (fungus systems). The main key points of optimization experiments are so-called biopulping and biobleaching.
Biopulping is understood as meaning treatment of chopped wood chips with live fungus systems.
There are 2 types of forms of application: 1. Pretreatment of chopped chips before refining or grinding in order to save energy during the production of wood pulps (for example TMP or mechanical wood pulp).
A further advantage is the improvement which usually exists in the mechanical properties of the pulp, but a disadvantage is the poorer final whiteness.
2. Pretreatment of chopped chips (softwood/hardwood) before cooking of the pulp (kraft process, sulfite process).
The aim is reduction in cooking chemicals, improvement in cooking capacity and "extended cooking".
Improved kappa reduction after cooking in comparison with cooking without pretreatment is also achieved as an advantage.
Disadvantages of these processes are clearly the long treatment times (several weeks), and above all the unsolved risk of contamination during treatment if sterilization of the chopped chips, which is uneconomical, is 3 to be dispensed with.
Biobleaching likewise operates with in vivo systems. The cooked pulp (softwood/hardwood) is seeded with the fungus before bleaching and is treated for days to weeks. Only after this long treatment time is a significant reduction in kappa number and increase in whiteness found, which renders the process uneconomical for implementation in the usual bleaching sequences.
Another application carried out usually with immobilized fungus systems is the treatment of waste waters from the manufacture of pulp, in particular bleaching waste waters, for decolorization thereof and reduction of the AOX (reduction of chlorinated compounds in the waste water caused by chlorine or chlorine dioxide bleaching stages).
It is furthermore known to employ hemicellulases and also xylanases and mannanases as "bleaching boosters".
These enzymes are said to act chiefly against the xylan which is reprecipitated after the cooking process and partly masks the residual lignin, and degradation thereof increases the accessibility of the lignin to the bleaching chemicals (above all chlorine dioxide) used in the subsequent bleaching sequences. The savings in bleaching chemicals demonstrated in the laboratory were confirmed to only a limited extent on a large scale, so that this type of enzyme can at best be classified as a bleaching additive.
Chelating substances (siderophors, such as ammonium oxalate) and biosurfactants are assumed to be a cofactor, alongside the lignolytic enzymes.
The Application PCT/EP87/00635 describes a system for removing lignin from material containing lignincellulose with simultaneous bleaching, which operates with lignolytic enzymes from white rot fungi with the addition of reducing and oxidizing agents and phenolic compounds as mediators.
In DE 4008893C2, "mimic substances" which simulate the active center (prosthetic group) of lignolytic 4 enzymes are added in addition to the redox system. It was thus possible to achieve a considerable improvement in performance.
In the Application PCT/EP92/01086, a redox cascade with the aid of phenolic or non-phenolic aromatics "coordinated" in oxidation potential is employed as an additional improvement.
The limitation for use on a large industrial scale is the applicability at low pulp densities (up to not more than 49) for all three processes, and for the last two Applications the risk of "leaching out" of metals when using chelating compounds, which can lead above all to destruction of the peroxide in the subsequent peroxide bleaching stages.
Processes in which the activity of peroxidase is promoted by means of so-called enhancer substances are known from WO/12619, WO 94/12620 and WO 94/12621.
The enhancer substances are characterized with the aid of their half-life in WO 94/12619.
According to WO 94/12620, enhancer substances are characterized by the formula A=N-N=B, in which A and B are each defined cyclic radicals.
According to WO 94/12620, enhancer substances are organic chemicals which contain at least two aromatic rings, at least one of which is substituted by in each case defined radicals.
All three Applications relate to "dye transfer inhibition" and the use of the particular enhancer substances, together with peroxidases, as a detergent additive or detergent composition in the detergent sector. Although a possible use for treatment of lignin is referred to in the description of the Application, our own experiments with the substances disclosed completely in the Application have shown that they showed no action as mediators for increasing the bleaching action of the peroxidases during treatment of lignin-containing materials! WO 94/29510 describes a process for enzymatic delignification in which enzymes are employed together 5 with mediators. Compounds having the structure NO-, NOHor HRNOH are generally disclosed as mediators.
Of the mediators disclosed in WO 94/29510, 1-hydroxy-1H-benzotriazoles [sic] (HBT) gives the best results in the delignification. However, HBT has various disadvantages: It is available only at high prices and not in adequate amounts.
It reacts under delignification conditions to give 1H-benzotriazole. This compound is relatively poorly degradable, and can represent considerable environmental pollution in larger quantities. It leads to damage to enzymes to a certain extent. Its rate of delignification is not all that high.
It is therefore desirable to provide systems for modifying, degrading or bleaching lignin, lignincontaining materials or similar substances, which systems have the disadvantages mentioned to a lesser extent or not at all.
The present invention therefore relates to a multi-component system for modifying, degrading or bleaching lignin, lignin-containing materials or similar substances comprising a. if appropriate at least one oxidation catalyst and b. at least one suitable oxidizing agent and c. at least one mediator, wherein the mediator is chosen from the group consisting of hydroxypyridines, aminopyridines, hydroxyquinolines, aminoquinolines, hydroxyisoquinolines and aminoisoquinolines, having nitroso or mercapto substituents ortho or para to the hydroxyl or amino groups, tautomers of said compounds and salts, ethers and esters thereof.
It has surprisingly been found that the novel multi-component system with said mediators do [sic] not have the drawbacks of the prior art multi-component systems.
Mediators which are preferably present in the multi-component system according to the invention are compounds of the general formula (II) or (III) -6- R1 R1 R1 R1 R1 R RI R RI R R1 R N R1 R N R1 R 1 1 1 (II) (III) and tautomers, salts, ethers or esters of said compounds, where, in the formulae I, II or [sic] III, two radicals
R
1 which are ortho or para to one another are a hydroxyl and nitroso radical or a hydroxyl and mercapto radical or a nitroso radical and an amino radical and the remaining radicals R 1 are identical or different and are chosen from the group consisting of a hydrogen, halogen, hydroxyl, mercapto, formyl, cyano, carbamoyl or carboxyl radical, an ester and salt of the carboxyl radical, a sulfono radical, an ester and salt of the sulfono radical, a sulfamoyl, nitro, nitroso, amino, phenyl, aryl-C 1 -Calkyl CC-alkyl, C-C, -C-alkoxy,
C
1 -Cl-carbonyl, carbonyl-Ci-C-alkyl, phospho, phosphono or phosphono-oxy radical and an ester and salt of the phosphonooxy radical, and where carbamoyl, sulfamoyl, amino, mercapto and phenyl radicals can be unsubstituted or mono- or polysubstituted by a radical R 2 and the aryl-Ci-Cs-alkyl, Ci-C 12 -alkyl, Ci-Cs-alkoxy, Ci-Co 1 -carbonyl and carbonyl-C 1
-C
6 -alkyl radicals can be saturated or unsaturated, branched or unbranched and can be mono- or polysubstituted by a radical R 2 wherein
R
2 is identical or different and is a hydroxyl, formyl, cyano or carboxyl radical, an ester or salt of the carboxyl radical or a carbamoyl, sulfono, sulfamoyl, nitro, nitroso, amino, phenyl, C 1 -Cs-alkyl or Cl-Cs-alkoxy radical or a Ci-Cs-alkylcarbonyl radical, and in each case two radicals R 1 or two radicals R 2 or R 1 and
R
2 can be linked in pairs via a bridge where m is 1, 2, 3 or 4, and 7
R
3 and R' are identical or different and are a carboxyl radical, an ester or salt of the carboxyl radical or a phenyl, Ci-Cs-alkyl or Ci-Cs-alkoxy radical or a
C
1 -Cs-alkylcarbonyl radical, and one or more non-adjacent groups [-CR 3
R
4 can be replaced by oxygen, sulfur or an imino radical which is optionally substituted by Cl-Cs-alkyl, and two adjacent groups
[-CR
3
R
4 can be replaced by a group [-CR 3
=CR
4 Mediators which are particularly preferred in the multi-component system according to the invention are compounds of the general formula or (II) and tautomers salts, ethers or esters thereof, where in the formulae and with particular preference, two radicals R 1 which are ortho to one another are hydroxy and nitroso radical or hydroxy and mercapto radical or nitroso and amino radical and the remaining radicals R 1 are identical or different and are chosen from the group consisting of a hydrogen, hydroxyl, mercapto, formyl, carbamoyl, carboxyl radical, an ester and salt of the carboxyl radical, a sulfono radical, an ester and salt of the sulfono radical, a sulfamoyl, nitro, nitroso, amino, phenyl, aryl-Ci-C 5 alkyl, Cl-Cs-alkyl, C-Cs-alkoxy, Ci-C 5 -carbonyl, carbonyl-
C
1
-C
6 -alkyl, phospho, phosphono, phosphono-oxy radical and an ester and salt of the phosphonooxyradical where carbamoyl, sulfamoyl, amino, mercapto and phenyl radicals can be unsubstituted or mono- or polysubstituted by a radical R 2 and the aryl-Cl-Cs-alkyl, Ci-Cs-alkyl, C 1 -Cs-alkoxy, Ci-Cscarbonyl, carbonyl-Ci-C 6 -alkyl radicals can be saturated or unsaturated, branched or unbranched and can be monoor polysubstituted by a radical R 2 wherein R 2 has the meanings already mentioned and in each case two radicals R 1 can be linked in pairs via a bridge [-CR 3
R
4 where m is 2, 3 or 4 and
R
3 and R 4 have the meanings already mentioned and one or more non-adjacent groups [-CR 3
R
4 can be replaced by oxygen or by an imino radical which is optionally -8 substituted by Cl-C 5 -alkyl.
Examples of compounds which can be employed as mediators (component c) in the multi-component system according to the invention are 2,6-dihydroxy-3-nitrosopyridine, 2,3 -dihydroxy-4 -nitrosopyridine, 2, 6-dihydroxy-3-nitrosopyridine-4-carboxylic acid, 2,4 -dihydroxy- 3-nitrosopyridine, 3 -hydroxy- 2-mercaptopyridine, 2 -hydroxy- 3-mercaptopyridine, 2, 6-diamino-3-nitrosopyridine, 2, 6-diumino-3-nitrosopyridine-4-carboxylic acid, 2 -hydroxy- 3-nitrosopyridine, 3 -hydroxy-2 -nitrosopyridine, 2 -mercapto- 3-nitrosopyridine, 3 -mercapto-2 -nitrosopyridine, 2-amino-3-nitrosopyridine, 3 -amino-2 -nitrosopyridine, 2,4 -dihydroxy- 3-nitrosoquinoline, 8 2, 3-dihydroxy-4-nitrosoquinoline, 3 -hydroxy-4-nitrosoisoquinoline, 4-hydroxy-3 -nitrosoisoquinoline, B isoquinoline and tautomers of these compounds.
Preferred mediators are 2,6-dihydroxy-3-nitrosopyridine, 2, 6-diamino-3-nitrosopyridine, 2, 6-dihydroxy-3-nitrosopyridine-4-carboxylic acid, 2,4 -dihydroxy- 3-nitrosopyridine, 2 -hydroxy- 3-mercaptopyridine, 2 -mercapto- 3-pyridinol, 2,4 -dihydroxy- 3-nitrosoquinoline, 2,3-dihydroxy-4-nitrosoquinoline and tautomers of these compounds.
The multi-component system according to- the invention comprises mediators which are cheaper than the mediators known from the prior art, in particular cheaper than HET.
Furthermore, an increase in the rate of delignification is achieved when the mediators according to the invention are employed.
9 The multi-component system according to the invention preferably comprises at least one oxidation catalyst.
Enzymes are preferably employed as oxidation catalysts in the multi-component system according to the invention. In the context of the invention, the term enzyme also includes enzymatically active proteins or peptides or prosthetic groups of enzymes.
Enzymes which can be employed in the multicomponent system according to the invention are oxidoreductases of classes 1.1.1 to 1.97 according to International Enzyme Nomenclature, Committee of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (Enzyme Nomenclature, Academic Press, Inc., 1992, pages 24-154).
The enzymes of the classes mentioned below are preferably employed: Enzymes of class 1.1, which include all dehydrogenases which act on primary and secondary alcohols and semiacetals and have NAD* or NADP* (subclass 1.1.1), cytochromes oxygen (02) disulfides quinones as acceptors or have other acceptors (1.1.99).
Enzymes of this class which are particularly preferred are those of class 1.1.5 with quinones as acceptors and enzymes of class 1.1.3 with oxygen as the acceptor.
Cellobiose: quinone-1-oxidoreductase is particularly preferred in this class.
Enzymes of class 1.2 are furthermore preferred.
This enzyme class includes those enzymes which oxidize aldehydes to give the corresponding acids or oxo groups.
The acceptors can be NAD*, NADP* cytochromes oxygen sulfides iron/ sulfur proteins or other acceptors (1.2.99).
The enzymes of group with oxygen as the acceptor are particularly preferred here.
Enzymes of class 1.3 are furthermore preferred.
This class comprises enzymes which act on CH-CH 10 groups of the donor.
The corresponding acceptors are NAD*, NADP cytochromes oxygen quinones or related compounds iron/sulfur proteins (1.3.7) or other acceptors (1.3.99).
Bilirubin oxidase is particularly preferred.
Here also, the enzymes of class with oxygen as the acceptor and with quinones and the like as the acceptor are particularly preferred.
Enzymes of class 1.4 which act on CH-NH 2 groups of the donor are furthermore preferred.
The corresponding acceptors are NAD*, NADP* cytochromes oxygen disulfides iron/sulfur proteins or other acceptors (1.4.99).
Enzymes of class 1.4.3 with oxygen as the acceptor are also particularly preferred here.
Enzymes of class 1.5 which act on CH-NH groups of the donor are furthermore preferred. The corresponding acceptors are NAD NADP* oxygen disulfides quinones or other acceptors (1.5.99).
Enzymes with oxygen (02) and with quinones as acceptors are also particularly preferred here.
Enzymes of class 1.6 which act on NADH or NADPH are furthermore preferred.
The acceptors here are NADP* hemoproteins disulfides quinones
NO
2 groups and a flavin or some other acceptors (1.6.99).
Enzymes of class 1.6.5 with quinones as acceptors are particularly preferred here.
Enzymes which are furthermore preferred are those of class 1.7 which act on other NO 2 compounds as donors and have cytochromes oxygen (02) iron/ sulfur proteins or others (1.7.99) as acceptors.
Class 1.7.3 with oxygen as the acceptor is 11 particularly preferred here.
Enzymes which are furthermore preferred are those of class 1.8 which act on sulfur groups as donors and have NAD', NADP* cytochromes oxygen (O2) disulfides quinones iron/ sulfur proteins or others (1.8.99) as acceptors.
Class 1.8.3 with oxygen (02) and with quinones as acceptors is particularly preferred.
Enzymes which are furthermore preferred are those of class 1.9 which act on hemo groups as donors and have oxygen (02) NO 2 compounds and others (1.9.99) as acceptors.
Group 1.9.3 with oxygen (02) as the acceptor (cytochrome oxidases) is particularly preferred here.
Enzymes of class 1.12 which act on hydrogen as the donor are furthermore preferred.
The acceptors are NAD* or NADP* (1.12.1) or others (1.12.99).
Enzymes of class 1.13 and 1.14 (oxygenases) are furthermore preferred.
Enzymes which are furthermore preferred are those of class 1.15 which act on superoxide radicals as acceptors.
Superoxide dismutase (1.15.1.1) is particularly preferred here.
Enzymes of class 1.16 are furthermore preferred.
NAD* or NADP* (1.16.1) or oxygen (02) (1.16.3) act as acceptors.
Enzymes of class 1.16.3.1 (ferroxidase, for example ceruloplasmin) are particularly preferred here.
Enzymes which are furthermore preferred are those which belong to group 1.17 (action on CH 2 groups, which are oxidized to -CHOH-), 1.18 (action on reduced ferredoxin as the donor), 1.19 (action on reduced flavodoxin as the donor) and 1.97 (other oxidoreductases).
The enzymes of group 1.11 which act on a peroxide as the acceptor are furthermore particularly preferred.
This sole subclass (1.11.1) contains the peroxidases.
Enzymes which are particularly preferred here are 12 the cytochrome C peroxidases catalase peroxidase iodide peroxidase glutathione peroxidase chloride peroxidase (1.11.1.10), L-ascorbate peroxidase (1.11.1.11), phospholipid hydroperoxide glutathione peroxidase (1.11.1.12), manganese peroxidase (1.12.1.13) and diarylpropane peroxidase (ligninase, lignin peroxidase) (1.11.1.14).
The enzymes of class 1.10 which act on biphenols and related compounds are especially preferred. They catalyze the oxidation of biphenols and ascorbates. NAD', NADP* cytochromes oxygen (1.10.3) or others (1.10.99) function as acceptors.
Enzymes of class 1.10.3 with oxygen (02) as the acceptor are in turn particularly preferred among these.
Particularly preferred enzymes of this class are the enzymes catechol oxidase (tyrosinase) Lascorbate oxidase o-aminophenol oxidase (1.10.3.4) and laccase (benzenediol:oxygen oxidoreductase) the laccases (benzenediol:oxygen oxidoreductase) (1.10.3.2) being particularly preferred.
The enzymes mentioned are commercially obtainable or can be obtained by standard processes. Possible organisms for production of the enzymes are, for example, plants, animal cells, bacteria and fungi. In principle, both naturally occurring organisms and organisms modified by genetic engineering can be producers of enzymes. Parts of one-cell or multicell organisms, above all cell cultures, are also conceivable as producers of enzymes.
White rot fungi, such as Pleurotus, Phlebia and Trametes, for example, are used for the particularly preferred enzymes, such as those from group 1.11.1, but above all 1.10.3, and in particular for the production of laccases.
The multi-component system according to the invention comprises at least one oxidizing agent. Oxidizing agents which can be employed are, for example, air, oxygen, ozone, H 2 0 2 organic peroxides, peracids, such as peracetic acid, performic acid, persulfuric acid, per- 13 nitric acid, metachloroperoxybenzoic acid and perchloric acid, perborates, peracetates, persulfates, peroxides or oxygen species and free radicals thereof, such as OH, OOH, singlet oxygen, superoxide ozonide, the dioxygenyl cation (02 dioxirane, dioxetanes or Fremy radicals.
Those oxidizing agents which either can be generated by the corresponding oxidoreductases, for example dioxiranes from laccases plus carbonyls, or which can regenerate the mediator chemically or can react with the mediator directly are preferably employed.
The invention also relates to the use of substances which are suitable according to the invention as mediators for modifying, degrading or bleaching lignin, lignin-containing materials or similar substances.
The activity of the multi-component system for modifying, degrading or bleaching of lignin, lignincontaining materials or similar substances is often increased further if Mg 2 ions are also present in addition to the constituents mentioned. The Mg 2 ions can be employed, for example, as salt, such as, for example, MgSO,. The concentration is in the range from 0.1 to 2 mg/g of lignin-containing material, preferably 0.2 0.6 mg/g.
In some cases, a further increase in the activity of the multi-component system according to the invention can be achieved by the multi-component system also comprising, in addition to the Mg 2 ions, complexing agents, such as, for example, ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA), diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (DTPA), hydroxyethylenediaminetriacetic acid (HEDTA), diethylenetriaminepentamethylenephosphonic acid (DTMPA), nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA), polyphosphoric acid (PPA) and the like. The concentration is in the range from 0.2 to 5 mg/g of lignin-containing material, preferably 1 3 mg.
The multi-component system according to the invention is used in a process for the treatment of lignin, for example, by mixing the components a) to c) as 14 claimed in claim 1 selected in each case with an aqueous suspension of the lignin-containing material simultaneously or in any desired sequence.
A process using the multi-component system according to the invention in the presence of oxygen or air under normal pressure up to 10 bar in a pH range from 2 to 11 at a temperature from 20 to 95 0 C, preferably 95 0 C, and a pulp consistency of 0.5 to 40% is preferably carried out.
An unusual and surprising finding for the use of enzymes in bleaching pulp is that when the multi-component system according to the invention is employed, an increase in the pulp consistency renders a considerable increase in the kappa reduction possible.
A process according to the invention is preferably carried out at pulp consistencies of 8 to particularly preferably 9 to 15%, for economic reasons.
Surprisingly, it has furthermore been found that an acid wash (pH 2 to 6, preferably 4 to 5) or Q stage (pH 2 to 6, preferably 4 to 5) before the enzyme mediator stage leads to a considerable reduction in kappa number in some pulps in comparison with treatment without this specific pretreatment. Chelating agents which are employed in the Q stage are the substances customary for this purpose (such as, for example, EDTA or DTPA). They are preferably employed in concentrations of 0.1% to 1% (w/w based on dry pulp), particularly preferably 0.1% to (w/w based on dry pulp).
Preferably, 0.01 to 100,000 IU of enzyme per g of lignin-containing material are employed in the process according to the invention. Particularly preferably, 0.1 to 100, and especially preferably 1 to 40 IU of enzyme per g of lignin-containing material are employed (1 U corresponds to the conversion of 1 pmol of 2,2'-azinobis(3-ethyl-benzothiazoline-6-sulfonic acid diammonium salt) (ABTS)/minute/ml of enzyme).
0.01 mg to 100 mg of oxidizing agent per g of lignin-containing material are preferably employed in the process according to the invention. 0.01 to 50 mg of 15 oxidizing agent per g of lignin-containing material are particularly preferably employed.
to 80 mg of mediator per g of lignincontaining material are preferably employed in the process according to the invention. 0.5 to 40 mg of mediator per g of lignin-containing material are particularly preferably employed.
At the same time, reducing agents which, together with the oxidizing agents present, serve to establish a particular redox potential, can be added.
Reducing agents which can be employed are sodium bisulfite, sodium dithionite, ascorbic acid, thio compounds, mercapto compounds or glutathione and the like.
The reaction proceeds with the addition of air or oxygen or under an increased oxygen or air pressure in the case of laccase, and with hydrogen peroxide in the case of the peroxidases (for example lignin peroxidases or manganese peroxidases). The oxygen can also be generated here in situ, for example, by hydrogen peroxide catalase, and the hydrogen peroxide can be generated in situ by glucose GOD or other systems.
Agents which form free radicals or agents which trap free radicals (trapping of, for example, OH or OOH radicals) can furthermore be added to the system. These can improve the interaction between the redox and free radical mediators.
Other metal salts can also be added to the reaction solution.
These are important, in interaction with chelating agents, as agents which form free radicals or redox centers. The salts form cations in the reaction solution.
Such ions are, inter alia, Fe 2 Fe 3 Mn 2 Mn 3 Mn4+, Cu 2 Ca 2 Ti", Cer" 4 and Al"3.
The chelates present in the solution can furthermore serve as mimic substances for the enzymes, for example for the laccases (copper complexes) or for the lignin peroxidases or manganese peroxidases (hemocomplexes). Mimic substances are to be understood as those substances which simulate the prosthetic groups of 16 (in this case) oxidoreductases and can catalyze, for example, oxidation reactions.
NaOCl can furthermore be added to the reaction mixture. This compound can form singlet oxygen by interaction with hydrogen peroxide.
Finally, it is also possible to operate with the use of detergents. Possible detergents are nonionic, anionic, cationic and amphoteric surfactants. The detergents can improve the penetration of the enzymes and mediators in the fiber.
It may likewise be necessary for the reaction to add polysaccharides and/or proteins. Polysaccharides which are to be mentioned here in particular are glucans, mannans, dextrans, levans, pectins, alginates or plant gums and/or intrinsic polysaccharides formed by the fungi or polysaccharides produced in the mixed culture with yeasts, and proteins which may be mentioned here in particular are gelatins and albumin.
These substances chiefly serve as protective colloids for the enzymes.
Other proteins which can be added are proteases, such as pepsin, bromelin, papain and the like. These can serve, inter alia, to achieve better access to the lignin by degradation of the extensin C, a hydroxyproline-rich protein, present in wood.
Other possible protective colloids are aminoacids, simple sugars, oligomeric sugars, PEG types of the most diverse molecular weights, polyethylene oxides, polyethyleneimines and polydimethylsiloxanes.
The process according to the invention can be employed not only for delignification (bleaching) of sulfate, sulfite, organosol or other pulps and of wood pulps, but also for the production of pulps generally, whether from woody or annual plants, when defibrillation by the customary cooking processes (possibly combined with mechanical processes or pressure), i.e. very gentle cooking to kappa numbers which can be in the range of about 50 120 kappa, is ensured.
For bleaching of pulps and also for the 17 production of pulps, the treatment can be repeated several times, either after washing and extraction of the treated pulp with NaOH or without these intermediate steps. This leads to kappa values which can be reduced considerably further still and to considerable increases in whiteness. An 02 stage can likewise be employed before the enzyme/mediator treatment, or, as has already been mentioned, an acid washing or Q stage (chelating stage) can also be carried out.
[lacuna] invention is illustrated in more detail in the following with the aid of examples: Example 1 Enzymatic bleaching with 8-hydroxy-5-nitrosoquinoline and softwood sulfate pulp 5 g of bone-dry pulp (softwood 02 delignified), pulp consistency 30% (about 17 g moist) are added to the following solutions: A) 65.3 mg of 8-hydroxy-5-nitrosoquinoline are added to ml of tap water, while stirring, and the pH is adjusted with 0.5 mol/l of H2SO solution such that pH results after addition of the pulp and the enzyme.
B) An amount of laccase from Trametes versicolor is added to 5 ml of tap water such that an activity of 15 U (1 U conversion of 1 nmol of ABTS/minute/ml of enzyme) per g of pulp results.
Solutions A and B are brought together and topped up to 33 ml.
After addition of the pulp, the mixture is mixed with a dough kneader for 2 minutes.
The pulp is then introduced into a reaction bomb preheated to 45 0 C and incubated under an increased oxygen pressure of 1 10 bar for 1 4 hours.
Thereafter, the pulp is washed over a nylon screen pm) and extracted for 1 hour at 60 0 C at a pulp consistency of 2% with 8% of NaOH per g of pulp.
After renewed washing of the pulp, the kappa number is determined. See Table 1 for the result 18 Example 2 Enzymatic bleaching with 2,4-dihydroxy-3-nitrosopyridine and softwood sulfate pulp g of bone-dry pulp (softwood 02 delignified), pulp consistency 30% (about 17 g moist) are added to the following solutions: A) 61.2 mg of 2,4-dihydroxy-3-nitrosopyridine are added to 20 ml of tap water, while stirring, and the pH is adjusted with 0.5 mol/l of H 2 SO, solution such that pH results after addition of the pulp and the enzyme.
B) An amount of laccase from Trametes versicolor is added to 5 ml of tap water such that an activity of 15 U (1 U conversion of 1 pmol of ABTS/minute/ml of enzyme) per g of pulp results.
Solutions A and B are brought together and topped up to 33 ml.
After addition of the pulp, the mixture is mixed with a dough kneader for 2 minutes.
The pulp is then introduced into a reaction bomb preheated to 45 0 C and incubated under an increased oxygen pressure of 1 10 bar for 1 4 hours.
Thereafter, the pulp is washed over a nylon screen pm) and extracted for 1 hour at 60 0 C at a pulp consistency of 2% with 8% of NaOH per g of pulp.
After renewed washing of the pulp, the kappa number is determined. See Table 1 for the result Example 3 Enzymatic bleaching with 3-hydroxy-2-mercaptopyridine and softwood sulfate pulp 5 g of bone-dry pulp (softwood 02 delignified), pulp consistency 30% (about 17 g moist) are added to the following solutions: A) 47.7 mg of 3-hydroxy-2-mercaptopyridine are added to ml of tap water, while stirring, and the pH is adjusted with 0.5 mol/l of H 2 SO solution such that pH results after addition of the pulp and the enzyme.
B) An amount of laccase from Trametes versicolor is added to 5 ml of tap water such that an activity of 15 U (1 U conversion of 1 pmol of ABTS/minute/ml of enzyme) 19 per g of pulp results.
Solutions A and B are brought together and topped up to 33 ml.
After addition of the pulp, the mixture is mixed with a dough kneader for 2 minutes.
The pulp is then introduced into a reaction bomb preheated to 45 0 C and incubated under an increased oxygen pressure of 1 10 bar for 1 4 hours.
Thereafter, the pulp is washed over a nylon sieve (30 pm) and extracted for 1 hour at 60 0 C at a pulp consistency of 2% with 8% of NaOH per g of pulp.
After renewed washing of the pulp, the kappa number is determined. See Table 1 for the result Example 4 Enzymatic bleaching with 2, 6-dihydroxy-3-nitrosopyridine- 4-carboxylic acid and softwood sulfate pulp g of bone-dry pulp (softwood 02 delignified), pulp consistency 30% (about 17 g moist) are added to the following solutions: A) 69.1 mg of 2,6-dihydroxy-3-nitrosopyridine-4carboxylic acid are added to 20 ml of tap water, while stirring, and the pH is adjusted with 0.5 mol/l of H 2
SO
4 solution such that pH 4.5 results after addition of the pulp and the enzyme.
B) An amount of laccase from Trametes versicolor is added to 5 ml of tap water such that an activity of 15 U (1 U conversion of 1 imol of ABTS/minute/ml of enzyme) per g of pulp results.
Solutions A and B are brought together and topped up to 33 ml.
After addition of the pulp, the mixture is mixed with a dough kneader for 2 minutes.
The pulp is then introduced into a reaction bomb preheated to 45 0 C and incubated under an increased oxygen pressure of 1 10 bar for 1 4 hours.
Thereafter, the pulp is washed over a nylon screen pm) and extracted for 1 hour at 60 0 C at a pulp consistency of 2% with 8% of NaOH per g of pulp.
After renewed washing of the pulp, the kappa number is 20 determined. See Table 1 for the result Example Enzymatic bleaching with 2,6-diamino-3-nitrosopyridine and softwood sulfate pulp 5 g of bone-dry pulp (softwood 02 delignified), pulp consistency 30% (about 17 g moist) are added to the following solutions: A) 51.8 mg of 2,6-diamino-3-nitrosopyridine are added to ml of tap water, while stirring, and the pH is adjusted with 0.5 mol/l of H 2 SO, solution such that pH results after addition of the pulp and the enzyme.
B) An amount of laccase from Trametes versicolor is added to 5 ml of tap water such that an activity of 15 U (1 U conversion of 1 pmol of ABTS/minute/ml of enzyme) per g of pulp results.
Solutions A and B are brought together and topped up to 33 ml.
After addition of the pulp, the mixture is mixed with a dough kneader for 2 minutes.
The pulp is then introduced into a reaction bomb preheated to 45 0 C and incubated under an increased oxygen pressure of 1 10 bar for 1 4 hours.
Thereafter, the pulp is washed over a nylon screen pm) and extracted for 1 hour at 60 0 C at a pulp consistency of 2% with 8% of NaOH per g of pulp.
After renewed washing of the pulp, the kappa number is determined. See Table 1 for the result Example 6 Enzymatic bleaching with 2,6-dihydroxy -3-nitrosopyridine and softwood sulfate pulp g of bone-dry pulp (softwood 02 delignified), pulp consistency 30% (about 17 g moist) are added to the following solutions: A) 52.6 mg of 2,6-dihydroxy-3-nitrosopyridine are added to 20 ml of tap water, while stirring, and the pH is adjusted with 0.5 mol/l of H 2 SO, solution such that pH results after addition of the pulp and the enzyme.
B) An amount of laccase from Trametes versicolor is added to 5 ml of tap water such that an activity of 15 U 21 (1 U conversion of 1 pmol of ABTS/minute/ml of enzyme) per g of pulp results.
Solutions A and B are brought together and topped up to 33 ml.
After addition of the pulp, the mixture is mixed with a dough kneader for 2 minutes.
The pulp is then introduced into a reaction bomb preheated to 45 0 C and incubated under an increased oxygen pressure of 1 10 bar for 1 4 hours.
Thereafter, the pulp is washed over a nylon screen lim) and extracted for 1 hour at 60 0 C at a pulp consistency of 2% with 8% of NaOH per g of pulp.
After renewed washing of the pulp, the kappa number is determined. See Table 1 for the result Example 7 Enzymatic bleaching with 2,4-dihydroxy-3-nitrosoquinoline and softwood sulfate pulp g of bone-dry pulp (softwood 02 delignified), pulp consistency 30% (about 17 g moist) are added to the following solutions: A) 71.3 mg of 2,4-dihydroxy-3-nitrosoquinoline are added to 20 ml of tap water, while stirring, and the pH is adjusted with 0.5 mol/l of H 2 SO, solution such that pH results after addition of the pulp and the enzyme.
B) An amount of laccase from Trametes versicolor is added to 5 ml of tap water such that an activity of 15 U (1 U conversion of 1 pmol of ABTS/minute/ml of enzyme) per g of pulp results.
Solutions A and B are brought together and topped up to 33 ml.
After addition of the pulp, the mixture is mixed with a dough kneader for 2 minutes.
The pulp is then introduced into a reaction bomb preheated to 45 0 C and incubated under an increased oxygen pressure of 1 10 bar for 1 4 hours.
Thereafter, the pulp is washed over a nylon screen pm) and extracted for 1 hour at 60 0 C at a pulp consistency of 2% with 8% of NaOH per g of pulp.
After renewed washing of the pulp, the kappa number is determined. See Table 1 for the result Table 1 Results of Examples 1 to 7: enzyme dosage in each case 15 U/g of pulp, incubation time in each case 2 h.
Substance Mediator dosage of pulp] 2,4-dihydroxy-3-nitroso-pyridine 2-mercapto-3-pyridinol 2,6-dihydroxy-3-nitrosopyridine-4-carboxylic acid 2,6-diamino-3-nitrosopyri-dine 2,6-dihydroxy-3-nitroso-pyridine 3-nitrosoquinoline-2,4-diol 65.3 52.6 47.7 69.1 51.8 52.6 71.3 lignin degradation 11.6 22.7 13.4 15.1 9.4 20.8 38.8 9 9 o* 9 9 9 9 9 9 eooo oo o aoo "Comprises" (or grammatical variations thereof) when used in this specification is to be taken as specifying the stated features, integers, steps, or components but does not preclude the addition of one or more other features, integers, steps, or components or groups thereof.

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1. A multi-component system for modifying, degrading or bleaching lignin or lignin-containing materials, comprising a. at least one enzyme and b. at least one suitable oxidizing agent and c. at least one mediator, wherein the mediator is chosen from the group consisting of hydroxypyridines, amino- pyridines, hydroxyquinolines, aminoquinolines, hydroxy- isoquinolines and aminoisoquinolines, having nitroso or mercapto substituents ortho or para to the hydroxyl or amino groups, tautomers of said compounds and salts, ethers and esters thereof.
2. A multi-component system as claimed in claim 1, wherein, as the mediator (component at least one compound chosen from the group consisting of compounds of the general formula (II) or (III) R1 R1 R1 R1 R1 R RI R RI R R 1 I I I R N R1 R N R1 R N 1 1 1 (11) (IllI) and tautomers, salts, ethers or esters thereof is present, where, in the formulae (II) or [sic] (III), two radicals R 1 which are ortho or para to one another are a hydroxyl and nitroso radical or a hydroxyl and mercapto radical or a nitroso radical and an amino radical and the remaining radicals R' are identical or different and are chosen from the group consisting of a hydrogen, halogen, hydroxyl, mercapto, formyl, cyano, carbamoyl or carboxyl radical, an ester and salt of the carboxyl AMENDED SHEET Y 1 IPEA/EP -24 radical, a sulfono radical, an ester and salt of the sulfono radical, a sulfamoyl, nitro, nitroso, amino, phenyl, aryl-Cl-C.-alkyl, Cl-C 1 2 -alkyl, Cl-C 5 -alkoxy, C3-C-carbonyl, carbonyl-Cl-C,-alkyl, phospho, phosphono or phosphono-oxy radical and an ester and salt of the phosphonooxy radical, and where carbamoyl, sulfamoyl, amino, mercapto and phenyl radicals can be unsubstituted or mono- or polysubstituted by a radical R 2 and the aryl-Cl-C.-alkyl, Cl-C 1 2 -alkyl, Cl-C 5 -alkoxy, C3 1 -Cl 0 -carbonyl and carbonyl-Cl-C.-alkyl radicals can be saturated or unsaturated, branched or unbranched and can 22 R 2is identical or different and is a hydroxyl, fonuyl, cyano or carboxyl radical, an ester or salt of the carboxyl radical or a carbamoyl, sulfono, sulfamoyl, nitro, nitroso, amino, phenyl, C3.-C 5 -alkyl or Cl-C_ 5 -alkoxy radical or a Cl-C.-alkylcarbonyl radical, and in each case two radicals R1 or two radicals R 2 or R 1 and R 2 can be linked in pairs via a bridge E-CR 3 R" 3, where m is 1, 2, 3 or 4, and R 3 and R' are identical or different and are a carboxyl radical, an ester or salt of the carboxyl radical or a phenyl, C 1 -C 5 -alkyl or Cl-C.-alkoxy radical or a Cl-C 5 -alkylcarbonyl radical, and one or more non-adjacent groups E-CR 3 can be replaced by oxygen, sulfur or an imino radical which is optionally substituted by Cl-C 5 -alkyl, and two adjacent groups E-CR 3 R4_] can be replaced by a group E-CR 3
3. A multi-component system as claimed in one of claims 1 or 2, wherein the mediator employed is at least one compound selected from the group 2, 6-dihydroxy-3-nitrosopyridine, 2, 3-dihydroxy-4-nitrosopyridine, 2,6-iyrx -irspyiie4croyi acid, 2,4 -dihydroxy- 3-nitrosopyridine, 3 -hydroxy- 2-mercaptopyridine, A14ENDED SHEET IPEA/EP 25 2 -hydroxy- 3-mercaptopyridine, 2, 6-diamino-3-nitrosopyridine, 2, 6-diamino-3-nitrosopyridine-4-carboxylic acid, 2 -hydroxy-3 -nitrosopyridine, 3 -hydroxy-2 -nitrosopyridine, 2 -mercapto- 3-nitrosopyridine, 3-mercapto-2-nitrosopyridine, 2-aznino-3-nitrosopyridine, 3-amino- 2-nitrosopyridine, 2,4 -dihydroxy- 3-nitrosoquinolime, 8 -hydroxy- 2, 3-dihydroxy-4-nitrosoquinoline, 3 -hydroxy-4 -nitrosoisoquinoline, 4 -hydroxy-3 -nitrosoisoquinoline, and tautomers of the compounds mentioned.
4. A multi-component system as claimed in one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the mediator employed is at least one compound selected from the group 2,6 -dihydroxy- 3-nitrosopyridine, 2, 3-dihydroxy-4-nitrosopyridine, 2, 6-dihydroxy-3-nitrosopyridine-4-carboxylic acid, 2,4 -dihydroxy- 3-nitrosopyridine, 3 -hydroxy- 2-mercaptopyridine, 2 -hydroxy- 3-mercaptopyridine, 2, 6-diamino-3-nitrosopyridine, 2, 6-diamino-3-nitrosopyridine-4-carboxylic acid, 2 -hydroxy- 3-nitrosopyridine, 3 -hydroxy- 2-nitrosopyridine, 2 -mercapto- 3-nitrosopyridine, 3-mercapto-2-nitrosopyridine, 2-amino-3-nitrosopyridine, 3-amino- 2-nitrosopyridine, 2, 4-dihydlroxy-3-nitrosoquinoline, 8 2, 3-dihydroxy-4-nitrosoquinoline, 3 -hydroxy-4-nitrosoisoquinoline, 4-hydroxy-3-nitrosoisoquinoline and
8-hydroxy-5-nitrosoisoquinoline, and tautomers of these compounds. [sic] A multi-component system as claimed in one of N AMENDED SHEET IPEA/EP 26 claims 1 to 6 [sic], wherein laccase is employed as the enzyme. 6. A multi-component system as claimed in one of claims 1 to 7 [sic], wherein air, oxygen, ozone, H 2 0,, organic peroxides, peracids, such as peracetic acid, performic acid, persulfuric acid, pernitric acid, meta- chloroperoxybenzo [sic] acid or perchloric acid, a perborate, a peracetate, a persulfate, a peroxide or an oxygen species and free radicals thereof, such as OH OOH singlet oxygen, superoxide (02a), ozonide or the dioxygenyl cation a dioxirane, a dioxetane or a Fremy radical is employed as the oxidizing agent. 7. A process for treatment of lignin, which com- prises mixing the particular components a) to as mentioned in claim 1, simultaneously or in any desired sequence with an aqueous suspension of the lignin- containing material. 8. The use of a mediator as mentioned in claim 1 as component c for modifying, degrading or bleaching lignin, lignin-containing materials or similar substances. A AMENDED SHEET IPEA/EP
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