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Electrochemically Driven Tandem Addition–Cyclization: Synthesis of Thiadiazinanes and Thiophosphonates
Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC01831E, PaperHonghao Zhou, Zhang Yike, Liting Ma, Xiangyang Liu, Chun Zhang, Feifei Tong, Dandan Hu, Jun-Qi Zhang, Jianguo Yang
We herein report a robust electrochemical one-pot two-step strategy for the efficient synthesis of valuable 1,2,5-thiadiazinane and thiophosphonate derivatives. The methodology employs electricity as a clean oxidant and catalytic tetrabutylammonium...
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DOI: 10.1039/D5GC01831E, PaperHonghao Zhou, Zhang Yike, Liting Ma, Xiangyang Liu, Chun Zhang, Feifei Tong, Dandan Hu, Jun-Qi Zhang, Jianguo Yang
We herein report a robust electrochemical one-pot two-step strategy for the efficient synthesis of valuable 1,2,5-thiadiazinane and thiophosphonate derivatives. The methodology employs electricity as a clean oxidant and catalytic tetrabutylammonium...
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Anaerobic Digestion-derived Digestate Valorization: Green Chemistry Innovations for Resource Recovery and Reutilization
Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC01053E, Tutorial ReviewSamuel Jacob, Debajyoti Kundu, Anjani Devi Chintagunta, Sampath K Nunne, Palas Samanta, Chandan Mahata, Sukhendu Dey, RG Shibirathna, Arun Barathi, Sunil Kumar, Zhiwu Drew Wang, Gaurav Goel
Anaerobic digestion (AD) plays a crucial role in sustainable waste management, converting biowaste into biogas while generating digestate as a nutrient-rich by-product. This review explores innovative digestate valorization strategies through...
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DOI: 10.1039/D5GC01053E, Tutorial ReviewSamuel Jacob, Debajyoti Kundu, Anjani Devi Chintagunta, Sampath K Nunne, Palas Samanta, Chandan Mahata, Sukhendu Dey, RG Shibirathna, Arun Barathi, Sunil Kumar, Zhiwu Drew Wang, Gaurav Goel
Anaerobic digestion (AD) plays a crucial role in sustainable waste management, converting biowaste into biogas while generating digestate as a nutrient-rich by-product. This review explores innovative digestate valorization strategies through...
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Enhanced electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction, oxygen evolution reaction and biomass oxidation over Ce-doped NiPx via optimization of electronic modulation
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC01605C, PaperShuhan Liu, Yifei Ye, Lele Gao, Zhen Yan, Haokun Pan, Zhaokun Wang, Guangrui Zhang, Xiubing Huang
Ce species synergistically adjust the electronic states of Ni in Ce-NiPx/NF, and the escape of P provides a large number of reaction sites, resulting in FDCA yield and Faraday efficiency of 98.69% and 98.38%, respectively, at 1.40 VRHE.
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Visible-light-driven photocatalytic depolymerization of post-consumer PET to terephthalic acid via cerium catalysis with batch-to-flow scalability
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC01218J, CommunicationYujian Pang, Xiqun Wu, Zhijie Li, Jie Sun, Zhenjiang Li, Jiang-Kai Qiu, Jian Wang, Canliang Ma, Kai Guo
The first report of a cerium trichloride photocatalyst enabling ambient visible-light PET depolymerization in batch and microfluidic systems.
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Selective oxidation of glucose–galactose syrup to gluconic and galactonic acids
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC01381J, Communication
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  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Joseph Install, Anže Zupanc, Seonyeong Kim, Wenjia Wang, Marianna Kemell, George W. Huber, Timo RepoOxidation of Greek yoghurt acid whey derived GGS syrup to gluconic and galactonic acids with solubility driven separation provides a route to high value bioproducts from dairy waste.
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Switching between α-alkenylation and α-alkylation of nitriles by coupling multiple electrochemical methods
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC01206F, CommunicationKai Li, Tong Li, Yupu Zhang, Hao Yang, Qi Sun, Zhiyong Wang
Switching between α-alkenylation and α-alkylation of nitriles was achieved by strategically coupling multiple electrochemical redox methods.
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Green synthesis of building blocks, drug candidates and fine chemicals by barochemistry: application of high pressure in organic synthesis
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC01075F, Tutorial Review
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  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Guoshu Xie, Valerie Wright, Alexander Lazarev, Gary Smejkal, Vera Gross, Béla TörökBarochemistry, the use of high hydrostatic pressure, is a powerful green activation method that enables effective, scalable, energy efficient and solvent-free synthesis—offering a distinct advantages over other non-traditional activation techniques.
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Depolymerization of polyesters by in situ generated alkali metal alkoxides
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC00664C, PaperJunyan Wu, Qingqing Zhao, Diandian Shi, Yiguo He, Zhen Miao, Haijiao Xie, Dianyu Wang, Shuzhuang Sun, Yadong Zhang
The strategy of ligand exchange between acetylacetone and ethylene glycol to generate magnesium alcoholate (MgEG) in situ for PET glycolysis.
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Electrochemical selective incorporation of SO2 to synthesize fused-ring framework compounds
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC01138H, PaperZhi-Long Lei, Dan Tan, Jin-Tao Qin, Xiu-Jin Meng, Fei-Hu Cui, Hai-Tao Tang, Ying-Ming Pan
This paper proposes a mild and effective electrochemical synthesis method. Through electrochemical oxidation and free radical cascade reactions, SO2 undergoes selective insertion, generating two different families of fused-ring framework compounds.
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Closed-loop recycling of bio-based disulfide vitrimer via a solvent-and waste-free strategy
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC01872B, Communication
Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Solène Guggari, Fiona Magliozzi, Samuel Malburet, Alain Graillot, Mathias Destarac, Marc GuerreA solvent-free process enables the efficient degradation of the vitrimer matrix under mild conditions, producing oligomers that can be reused without purification.
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Multifunctional 3-cyanopyridine compounds: synthesis based on a tandem reaction with 100% atom economy and their applications
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC01264C, PaperXi-Ying Cao, Zhong-Hao Li, Xiao-Hui Cao, Zong Li, Chu-Ming Pang, Zu-Qi Zhang, Zhao-Yang Wang
A NaOH-promoted tandem reaction under mild, metal-free conditions converts benzopyranitriles and pyrrolidines to multifunctional 3-cyanopyridines for fluorescence and antibacterial use with 100% atom economy and 97% yield.
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Enabling desaturation of lactones by reversible catalytic activity of ‘ene’-reductases
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC01533B, PaperFengxi Li, Yihang Dai, Shenhan Xie, Xinjia Yu, Xinyan Shi, Zhengqiang Li, Chuang Du, Zhi Wang, Lei Wang
An engineered old yellow enzyme lactone dehydrogenase (OYE1LD), which can reversibly catalyze the formation of CC bonds and facilitate the conversion of lactones and ketones into their α,β-unsaturated counterparts, is reported.
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Aqueous-phase synthesis of benzyl ester over partially thiolated Au25 nanocluster catalysts: improving selectivity with a hydrophobic carbon support
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC01292A, PaperKosuke Sakamoto, Koki Chida, Shinya Masuda, Takeharu Yoshii, Hirotomo Nishihara, Tatsuya Tsukuda
This research has revealed the role of the carbon support in increasing the ester yield in the alcohol oxidation reaction catalyzed by Au25 nanoclusters in water.
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Direct nitrile electrosynthesis from amino acids on nickel oxyhydroxide
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC01194A, CommunicationXudong Liu, Zhe Chen, Tao Jiang, Wei Du, Can Lei, Xueting Cao, Shuangshuang Cha, Mengxin Qu, Xinchi Zhou, Ming Gong
A promising method of synthesizing functional nitriles from amino acids on α-Ni(OH)2 pre-catalysts through consecutive oxidative dehydrogenation and decarboxylation.
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Carbon-dot-modified phloroglucinol–glutaraldehyde resin photocatalysts for hydrogen peroxide production
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC01193K, PaperJiarong Wang, Ning Li, Weijie Ren, Jie Wu, Qing Chang, Jinlong Yang, Shengliang Hu, Haolan Xu
Carbon dots (CDs) can boost quinoid structure formation in resins. CD-combined PG resins realize the combination of an indirect two-electron oxygen reduction reaction and hole-induced carboxyl group oxidation to generate H2O2.
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Two-step continuous flow aerobic oxidation of cannabidiol to cannabinoquinone derivatives
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC01304F, PaperManuel Zielke, Christof Aellig, Dominique M. Roberge, Christopher A. Hone, C. Oliver Kappe
A two-step continuous flow synthesis using molecular oxygen to prepare cannabidiol quinone derivative, Etrinabdione, under sustainable conditions is reported.
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Facile and rapid access to hexafluoroisopropanol (HFIP)-group-functionalized aniline and indole derivatives using hexafluoroacetone trihydrate in HFIP
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC00878F, PaperXindi Li, Yuhao Wu, Jinshan Li, Jialin Xie, Juanzu Liu, Zhenchang Wen, Zhendong Zhao, Chunman Jia
A simple and efficient protocol for the synthesis of HFIP-group-functionalized aniline and indole derivatives using cheap and widely available hexafluoroacetone trihydrate in HFIP was developed.
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Developments in CO surrogates for base-metal-catalyzed carbonylation
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC01579K, Tutorial ReviewWenjing Li, Shentong Xie, Renyi Shi
Base-metal-catalyzed carbonylation utilizing CO surrogates.
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N-Coordinated Pd–Rh synergy for highly selective ethylene glycol oxidation and efficient hydrogen evolution
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC00784D, PaperHai-Yan Guo, Jin-Wei Kang, Yun-Yan Du, Lu Zhang, Jiu-Ju Feng, Ai-Jun Wang
The N-coordinated PdRh@Ni(OH)2 catalyst achieves >97.6% GA selectivity and efficient hydrogen evolution (2.52 kW h m−3 H2) via synergistic Pd–Rh interactions and N-coordination, enabling EG adsorption, *OC–CH2OH formation and OH− activation.
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Computational modeling-guided design of deep eutectic solvents for tailoring lignin chemistry during lignocellulose pretreatment
DOI: 10.1039/D4GC06120A, Paper
Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Le Zhou, Xianzhi Meng, Weiwei Li, Jiali Yu, Christian O. Kemefa, Susie Y. Dai, Arthur J. Ragauskas, Joshua S. YuanDesigning deep eutectic solvents to tailor the lignin structure and customize biomaterials through computational modeling and experiments.
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