“…The peak belonging to CO of unconjugated ketone, carbonyl, and ester groups in hemicellulose and lignin shifted from 1738 cm –1 for raw cypress and PS to 1730 cm –1 for raw SCB and disappeared after acid or alkaline pretreatment, which corresponded to the hemicellulose degradation during acid pretreatment and lignin removal in the alkaline pretreatment process (Table ). The same phenomenon was also observed for acid-treated or alkali-treated SCB in other research studies. , As for acid-treated samples, the peaks at 1092, 1123, 1204, and 1695 cm –1 appeared solely in SCB and those at 816, 858, 1711, and 1722 cm –1 were found only in cypress (Figure b). The peaks at 1227, 1269, 1425, and 1454 cm –1 for acid-treated cypress and PS were sharper than those for acid-treated SCB.…”