This study aimed at characterizing the chemical aspects of the humin compounds of a degraded clay extraction area covered with spontaneous vegetation of Brachiaria mutica (Forsk) Stapf or afforested with Acacia mangium Willd. After extraction and purification, humin was subjected to transesterification using BF3-MeOH (boron trifluorate methanol) to obtain the aliphatic and aromatic sub-fractions. These sub-fractions were analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. The following compounds were identified in the aliphatic sub-fraction of the A. mangium site: methyl hexadecanoate, methyl octadecanoate, […]