Hello everybody, I would like to ask a general question concerning the origin of CO during organic matter pyrolysis : Have you got any idea about the nature of the main fonctional groups releasing CO during pyrolysis of organic matter ? Thank you so much for your help YC ------------------------------------------------------ Yoann Copard Phd-Student Institut des Sciences de la Terre d'Orléans (ISTO) Laboratoire de Géologie de la Matière Organique Bât. Géosciences BP 6759, 45067 ORLEANS cedex 2 téléphone : (33) 02-38-41-71-71, poste 7905 ou 06 60 75 19 73 fax : (33) 02-38-41-73-08 e-mail : Yoann.Copard@univ-orleans.fr ----------------------------------------------------- __________________ ORGLIST - Organic Chemistry Mailing List Website / Archive / FAQ: http://www.orglist.net/ List coordinator: Joao Aires de Sousa (jas@mail.fct.unl.pt)