Journal of Wood Science

Official Journal of the Japan Wood Research Society

Table 3 List of the Arrhenius’ activation energies (E _a), Arrhenius’ frequency factors (A), and reaction rate constants (k) obtained in our previous reports [1, 2]

From: Effect of type of aromatic nucleus in lignin on the rate of the β-O-4 bond cleavage during alkaline pulping process

	GG		GS		SG		SS		G′G	G′S
	erythro	threo	erythro	threo	erythro	threo	erythro	threo	G′G	G′S
E ^a_a	130	133	108	121	121	129	88.6	129	101	98.3
A ^b	294	166	2.33	16.4^d	30.2	60.5	0.0108	127	0.0609	0.0576
k ^c
130 °C	4.63	1.07	20.9	3.51	6.80	1.31	34.7	4.37	5.52	10.6
140 °C	11.8	2.79	45.8	8.42	16.3	3.29	65.8	11.1	11.4	21.5
150 °C	28.8	6.96	96.7	19.4	37.5	7.90	121	26.9^d	22.8	42.1
160 °C	67.4	16.7	197	42.8	82.9	18.2	217	62.6	44.2	80.2
170 °C	152	38.4	389	91.5	177	40.5	378	140	83.1	148

For GG, GS, SG, and SS [1], for G′G and G′S [2]
^aUnit: ×kJ mol⁻¹
^bUnit: ×10¹² min⁻¹
^cUnit: ×10⁻³ min⁻¹
^dThese data are different from those listed in the reference no. 1, where the wrong data were listed

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