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Green Chem., 2025, 27,6002-6015
DOI: 10.1039/D4GC06369D, Paper Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Daniele Motta, Alessandro Damin, Hamideh Darjazi, Stefano Nejrotti, Federica Piccirilli, Giovanni Birarda, Claudia Barolo, Claudio Gerbaldi, Giuseppe Antonio Elia, Matteo Bonomo
The NaCl–glycerol deep eutectic solvent can operate stably at high voltage, showing remarkable results for such a sustainable electrolyte.
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Green Chem., 2025, 27,5947-5981
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC00924C, Tutorial Review Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Anastasiia M. Afanasenko, Noemi Deak, Jacquin October, Roberto Sole, Katalin Barta
Green amine synthesis is assessed using the CHEM21 green metrics toolkit, offering a step-by-step guide for sustainability evaluation and promoting environmentally conscious transformations.
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC02267C, PaperYize Zhang, Haobo Xu, Hangshuai Li, Junrong Jiao, Xin Wen, Qinggang Meng, Xingwang Lan
Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) have demonstrated photocatalytic potential for CO2 reduction, yet their structure-property correlations, particularly concerning charge-carrier dynamics, remain poorly understood. Herein, we constructed a series of isostructural porphyrin-bicarbazole...
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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC00446B, PaperFlorian Häfliger, Quentin Bievelot, Michael Peter Huber
In this work, bio-based amines from lignin-derived vanillin and guaiacol were synthesized and used as hardener and accelerator in epoxy thermosets, showing improved performance over petrol-based benchmarks.
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4GC05796A, Critical Review Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Federica Orabona, Federica Recupido, Giuseppe Cesare Lama, Krzysztof Polaczek, Francesco Taddeo, Tapio Salmi, Martino Di Serio, Letizia Verdolotti, Vincenzo Russo
Polyurethane (PU) foams represent a wide class of polymeric materials, having implications in different sectors from automotive, packaging, cushioning/bedding to construction. However, their synthesis requires the use of petrol-based components;...
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC01305D, Tutorial ReviewChunlin Luo, Shuai Liu, Tao Wu, Jianli Hu, Yuxin Wang
Plastic waste presents a dual challenge and opportunity, serving as both an environmental burden and a valuable feedstock for high-value chemicals and monomers. Conventional recycling methods suffer from material degradation...
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC01480H, PaperYongtao Wang, Kehan Yu, Wenjing Sun, Jia Yao, Haoran Li
Oxygenation and hydrogenation in the production of bulk chemicals traditionally rely on molecular oxygen and hydrogen, respectively. Coupling these two reactions using water as both the oxygen and hydrogen source...
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC00269A, PaperJiachen Jiao, Chuan-Bao Zhang, Hui Sun, Haina Hu, Ziqing Xu, Junwei Zhao, Qiuxia Han, Pengtao Ma
Photocatalytic oxidation of hydrocarbons to carboxylic acids is considered to be an attractive method, but exploring active and stable photocatalysts remains a challenge. In this work, a new polyoxometalate-based metal-organic...
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC01922B, PaperTongyu Han, Shiqian Zhang, Jinya Li, Quansheng Mou, Jian Gao, Bowen Cao, Chao-Jun Li, Mingxin Liu
The development of metal-free ‘greenner’ C-C coupling process is highly desired in light of future sustainability as well as social and environmental well-being. Herein, we have successfully disclosed a metal-free...
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4GC06452F, Paper Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Eleonora Fornoni, Ammar Al-Shameri, Pablo Dominguez de Maria, Volker Sieber
5-(aminomethyl)-2-furancarboxylic acid (AMFCA) represents a biogenic replacement to fossil-based monomers for the production of semi-aromatic polyamides, thermoplastics widely used in the automotive, electrical and packaging industries. AMFCA has been synthetized...
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC01259G, CommunicationWei Xu, Nana Zhang, Chenyu Li, Haodong Ma, Bin Wang, Ziren Chen, Yu Xia, Shaofeng Wu, Weiwei Jin, Pen-Ji Yan, Chenjiang Liu, Yonghong Zhang
A straightforward strategy for electrochemical vicinal amidoselenation of unactivated olefins via a tandem Ritter reaction was developed. The reaction was carried out with diaryl diselenides as selenylation reagents and acetonitrile...
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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC00615E, Perspective Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Paweł Mateusz Nowak
Proposal of a general set of universal rules allowing an increase in the scientific value provided by the evaluation of greenness and other “colours”.
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC00794A, PaperJaeheon Kim, Emily Prebihalo, Mayuri K. Porwal, Nathan Rackstraw, Tyler J. Weinstein, Ben Reiner, Kelli Ogawa, Paul Jakob Dauenhauer, Theresa M Reineke, Lyndsay Leal
The development of degradable thermosets from renewable resources addresses the pollution associated with fossil fuel-based plastics. Here, degradable thermosets with controllable hydrophobicity and mechanical properties were prepared from renewable cellulose....
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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC01888A, CommunicationYicheng He, Krishnapriya Anattil Unnikrishnan, Wenhao Yin, Rositha Kuniyil, Haifeng Du, Wusheng Guo
An unprecedented B(C6F5)3-catalyzed cyclic carbonate editing approach is reported. DFT calculations detailed the reaction pathways and the origin of excellent stereoselectivity.
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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC00830A, PaperKe Wang, Tong Zhao, Shiyu Zhang, Rupeng Wang, Meng Wang, Zixiang He, Shih-Hsin Ho
A synergistic strategy combining nanoconfinement with defect engineering is proposed to boost nitrate electroreduction via concentrating nitrate, enhancing nitrate adsorption, accelerating water dissociation, and suppressing hydrogen evolution.
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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC00851D, Paper Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Karen K. L. Augusto, Robert D. Crapnell, Elena Bernalte, Hayley G. Andrews, Orlando Fatibello-Filho, Craig E. Banks
Pt nps were produced on graphite flakes using an eco-friendly aqueous synthesis and no additional reagents/solvents. This was used to make a bespoke filament from recycled PLA and bio-based castor oil, using only 5 minutes of thermal mixing.
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC01732G, PaperChanghui Jing, Falin Li, Shuai Du, Xin Wang, Fengyuan Zhang, Songqi Ma
One-component epoxy resins have captured great attention due to their improved processing, environmental friendliness, quality stability, etc., but developing green and high-latent-efficiency ones is still urgent required. In this work,...
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC01624J, PaperXiaoqian Du, Junjun Zhang, Mengyuan Zhang, Huilong Wei, Xiu Lin, Wen Guo, Pengfei Zhang, Zheng-Hong Luo
Oxyanion adsorption engineering has recently emerged as a hotspot in the electrocatalysis due to its pivotal role in enhancing water oxidation performance. However, the simultaneous optimization of both oxygen evolution...
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4GC05683C, Tutorial ReviewRipsa Rani Nayak, Navneet Kumar Gupta
The growing demand for aromatic compounds, essential in industries like pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, and materials manufacturing, coupled with rising environmental concerns, has driven significant research toward renewable production pathways. Traditionally, aromatic...
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC01910A, PaperQiufu Zeng, Chenyu Ge, Qianxin Sun, Xi Li, Changwei Hu
2-Methylfuran (2-MF) is an important organic intermediate with a wide range of applications in pharmaceutical, pesticide and fine chemical industries. The existing industrial route to 2-MF relies on the energy-intensive,...
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