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I am extracting lignin from woody biomass and depolymerizing it at 300C for 20 minutes in an organic solvent with a noble metal catalyst. However, I don't see the phenolic monomers that are typically expected from lignin. Instead, I see only the aliphatic compounds! I am trying to figure out what can be wrong? There are many things that can be wrong, but how to approach the problem step by step?

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