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Official Journal of the Japan Wood Research Society

Table 2 Resonance assignment of solid-state NMR of wood and grass. Excerpted from [27, 28]

From: Weathering characteristics of bamboo (Phyllostachys puberscence) exposed to outdoors for one year

Resonance number

Chemical shift (ppm)

Assignment

1

173

Acetyl groups in hemicelluloses

2

153

S3, S5 lignin

3

148

S3, S5, G1, G4

4

135

Etherified S and G

5

116

C3, C5 in p-hydroxyphenyl

6

105

C1 carbohydrate

7

89

C4 crystalline cellulose

8

84

C4 amorphous cellulose

9

75

Cellulose

10

65

C6 crystalline cellulose

11

62

Xylan

12

56

Methoxyl in lignin

13

33

Aliphatic carbons (=extractives)

14

21

Acetyl groups in hemicelluloses

  1. S syringyl lignin, G guaiacyl lignin