A sustainable method for generating vanillin from wood processing waste has been developed within the SusInnoScience framework in the Lab of Siegfried Waldvogel and it has been published by Zirbes et al. in 2020.
M. Zirbes, L. L. Quadri, M. Breiner, A. Stenglein, A. Bomm, W. Schade, S. R. Waldvogel, High-Temperature Electrolysis of Kraft Lignin for Selective Vanillin Formation, ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. 2020, 8, 19, 7300–7307. [DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.0c00162]
The publication has been highlighted in Spektrum, in the newspaper FAZ and of course among the press releases of the JGU Mainz.