were performed
for the structural characterization and semi-quantification of hemicelluloses
and lignin in the extracts. A Bruker 400 MHz DMX instrument (Bruker
Corporation, Billerica, MA, USA) equipped with a multinuclear inverse
Z-grad probe was used. The pulse sequence was hsqcetgpsi. The pulse
length was optimized at 9.2 s with a 1.49 s relaxation delay and 176
scans per sample. For each experiment, approximately 70 mg of sample
was dissolved in 550 μL of DMSO-d6. Phase correction in the spectra was performed manually, and baseline
correction was performed using a third-order Bernstein polynomial
fit. Peak assignment was made according to previous work.11 (link),23 (link),24 (link) Calculations on the quantification
of interunit linkages are provided as
31P NMR experiments were conducted
according to previous work,25 (link) following
the protocol by Argyropoulos.26 (link) Peak assignments
were made according to the study by Pu et al.27 (link) A Bruker Avance III HD 400 MHz instrument with a BBFO probe equipped
with a Z-gradient coil was used. The pulse sequence zgig30 was used,
with 256 scans and a relaxation delay (D1) of 6 s. The spectra were
processed with MestreNova (Mestrelab Research).