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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC03562G, Paper Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Madeline Weisweiller, Adrian Ertl, Cornelia von Baeckmann, Anil Kumar Sihag, Christian M. Pichler, Freddy Kleitz, Dominik Eder, Alexey S. Cherevan
The harmful effects of daily plastic use are increasingly evident, with most waste burned or landfilled, leading to the formation of microplastics that pollute the environment and the food chain....
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC04553C, CommunicationCong Yu, Liwei Wang, Xiaotong Bu, Hui Liao, Meng Gao
Organic peroxidic bonds represent privileged scaffolds in both organic and medicinal chemistry. However, direct construction of peroxidic bonds (O-O) remains unreported in synthetic methodology, as conventional strategies rely on preactivated...
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC04167H, PaperMin-Min Wang, Hong Guo, Zheng-Wu Wang, Yu-Quan Yan, Yi-Zhou Zhu, He-Fang Wang
L, L-lactide, the important precursor for biodegradable polylactic acid, has attracted significant attention. The one-step synthesis based on nanoconfinement primarily utilizes porous catalysts to induce the cyclization of L-lactic acid...
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC03525B, PaperMin Liang, Wei Gong, Jielin Zhao, Hong Wang, Chongzhen Sun, Xianwei Liu, Guofeng Gu
The biochemical properties, functional characterization and substrate specificities of five recombinant glycosyltransferases – β-1,3-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase (Cps1aI), β-1,4-galactosyltransferase (Cps1aJ), β-1,3-galactosyltransferase (Cps1bJ), and α-2,3-sialyltransferase (Cps1aK and Cps1bK) – involved in the biosynthesis of...
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC05069C, Critical Review Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Hui Shi, Anastasia A. Teck, Laura Lander, Maria Magdalena Titirici
Aluminum–graphite dual-ion batteries (AGDIBs) are emerging as a promising alternative in electrochemical energy storage due to aluminum’s abundance, low cost, intrinsic safety, high power density, and excellent performance across a...
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC05522A, PaperJuan Torres-Rodríguez, Antxon Martínez de Ilarduya, Haritz Sardon, Ricardo A Pérez-Camargo, Alejandro J. Müller
A series of novel aliphatic polysuccinates was synthesized from dimethyl succinate and various linear diols, with methylene chain lengths (nCH2) ranging from 2 to 12 in their repeating units. The...
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC04611D, PaperBasavarajagouda E Patil, Rahul Tarkase, Rajdeep Paul, Gopalan Rajaraman, Deepti Kalsi
The development of environmentally benign photocatalytic methodologies for [2+2] cycloadditions is of significant interest, given their utility in accessing cyclobutane motifs found in natural products and pharmaceuticals. Conventional approaches often...
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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC03714J, Critical ReviewJaime J. M. Pang, Yan Hui Lee, Haonan Zhao, Albert Ong, Jason Y. C. Lim
In this review, we examine the possibility of using mixed and/or contaminated plastic feedstock for chemical recycling, upcycling and formation of physical polymer blends.
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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC04228C, Paper Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Parsa Pishva, Jinyao Tang, Yanlin Zhu, Jochen Lauterbach, Zhenmeng Peng
Energy-efficient hydrogenolysis of pure and waste HDPE via NTP at ambient conditions achieves complete conversion within minutes into C1–C4 hydrocarbons and waxes, reaching a record 8.2 output/input energy ratio and 2.7 ¢kg−1 electricity cost.
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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC04392A, Paper Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Edward P. Rayner, Tomas Horsten, Siegfried R. Waldvogel
Shellac, a bioresin secreted by insects, is electrochemically degraded to obtain value-added dicarboxylic acids.
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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC90217G, Correction Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Mingzhe Ma, Yajie Wang
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC05046D, CommunicationBin Wang, Zekun Li, Hua Cao
This study successfully developed a novel metal- and base-free controllable tandem cyclization/rearrangement strategy using 2-[3-(trifluoromethyl)but-3-en-1-yn-1-yl]benzaldehydes for the divergent synthesis of CF3-containing 1-(aminomethyl)naphthalen-2-ols and CF3-containing 1-(2-naphthyl)azetidines. This method was successfully applied...
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC04260G, PaperHuajuan Zhai, Yujie Fang, Sihuai Fan, Wanhua Wu, Tao Sun, Weihan Rao, Jiandong Ding, Lin Yu
Poly(lactic acid) (PLA), a bioplastic currently with the highest production capacity, represents a promising alternative to traditional petroleum-based plastics. However, its slow degradation in natural environments and limited recycling options...
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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC03051J, Critical Review Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Md Maksudur Rahman, Hemant Choudhary, Blake A. Simmons, John M. Gladden, Alberto Rodriguez
In this review, we provide a comprehensive assessment of recent advances in ionic liquid recycling technologies.
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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC03018H, Critical Review Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Rajiv Ranjan Srivastava, Sadia Ilyas
The key involvements of thermodynamics in Ge-extraction and separation from industrial by-products and e-waste are highlighted, while exploring sustainable supply models via life-cycle assessment and economic analyses of different processing routes.
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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC03996G, PaperXuan Zhao, Shun Zhang, Jiaying Xu, Chengfeng Shen, Yifan Liu, Xuehui Liu, Zhishan Su, Shimei Xu, Yu-Zhong Wang
By taking advantage of the combined action of solvents and catalysts, PET can be efficiently hydrolyzed under neutral conditions. The catalyst has a dual activation effect on the protons of water and the ester groups of PET.
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC05418D, CommunicationJianyou Zhao, Jiaoyang Liu, Zhe Zhang, Chengling Deng, Shengkang Qian, Zhehuai Liu, Fan Wang, Shuai Liu, Zhongquan Liu
We herein report a Cu-electrocatalyzed strategy for selective azidation of tertiary and benzylic C(sp 3 )-H bonds, affording the corresponding azides in consistently high yields. Compared to existing methods, this...
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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC03052H, Paper Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Young Eun Song, Changman Kim, Lydia Rachbauer, Lauren R. Magnusson, Chang Dou, Katherine J. Chou, Steven W. Singer, Eric Sundstrom
Novel reactor design and sequencing fed-batch operation enhance biohydrogen production from lignocellulosic biomass to 24.87 L H2/L, achieving over 95% solubilization of cellulose and hemicellulose.
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC04231C, Communication Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.hefei yang, Le-Cheng Wang, Yuanrui Wang, Xiao-Feng Wu
Herein, we report a photocatalytic carbonylative carboxylation strategy for alkenes, achieving the cooperative utilization of both CO and CO 2 as C1 building blocks within a single reaction system. This...
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC04738B, PaperKaiyu Ma, Jing Wang, Yue Ju, Lei Chen, Xinyu Song, Weiwen Zhang
With the increasing restrictions on petrochemical-derived polymers and growing demand for sustainable materials, cis, cis-muconate (ccMA) has emerged in recent years as a promising platform chemical for green manufacturing. However,...
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