1. Institute of Chemical Industry of Forest Products, China Academy of Forestry; National Engineering Laboratory for Biomass Chemical Utilization; State Forestry Administration’s Key and Open Laboratory for Forest Chemical Engineering; Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory for Biomass Energy and Material, Nanjing 210042, China 2. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Michigan-Flint, Flint MI 48502, USA
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