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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC02437D, PaperWenjing Wang, Mingzhi Zhang, Meng Guo, Jiaxin Wang, Xuelian Wang, Jianheng Yin, Liang Chen, Yaguang Li
A uniformly autotrophic K/O-CN–R. eutropha biohybrid was designed to efficiently convert CO2 into visible C4 bioplastics without the need for any auxiliary agents.
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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC04584C, PaperKun Cheng, Shaobin Li, Qingyu Cheng, Li Zhang, Yufeng Jiang, Fengbo Li, Xiaoqing Lv
Bi doping modulates Fe 3d orbital spin, directionally injecting electrons into Mo via d–d hybridization to adjust the Mo d-band center, enhancing ambient electrocatalytic nitrogen fixation for MBene heterostructure.
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC05648A, CommunicationAn-Li Long, Qiuhong Liang, Jianjing Yang, Ziping Cao, Kelu Yan, Dan Wang, Jiangwei Wen
The development of convenient and practical synthetic strategies for constructing bioactive diketopiperazines (DKPs) and amide scaffolds without metal residues is of great interest in organic synthesis. Herein, we report a...
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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC05344G, PaperWei Sun, Yuzhe Pang, Yucheng He, Zhenyang Luo, Puyou Jia, Yonghong Zhou, Ye Sha
We demonstrate a homopolymerization strategy for the controlled synthesis of fully biobased, high-molecular-weight polyolefins. These materials exhibit thermomechanical properties comparable to LDPE while being chemically recyclable.
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC05274B, CommunicationZhaoxin Wei, Ziren Chen, Fei Xue, Bin Wang, Yu Xia, Shaofeng Wu, Yonghong Zhang, Weiwei Jin, Xuefeng Jiang, Chenjiang Liu
The first electrochemical reduction of sulfoxides to thioethers has been achieved using a recyclable ionic liquid as both catalyst and electrolyte, without metal catalysts, stoichiometric redox reagents, or external electrolytes....
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC05517B, PaperZupeng Chen, Yongqi Zhuang, Yuguo Dong, Yanmei Zheng, Wenjun Zhang, Lin Dong
Lignin, the most abundant natural aromatic polymer on Earth, offers a promising feedstock for the production of value-added aromatic products through selective C-C bond cleavage. However, achieving both high product...
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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC04585A, Paper Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Yanhui Kong, Yutaro Takaya, Mauricio Córdova-Udaeta, Chiharu Tokoro
Lithium extraction from spinel LiMn2O4 is important because it is both a mainstream LIB cathode and a key precursor for λ-MnO2, which is widely used for selective lithium extraction from brines and seawater.
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC04694G, PaperJulian Sánchez Velandia, Mattia. Aannatelli, Cristopher Tinajero, Marcileia Zanatta, Victor Sans, Fabio Aricò, Eduardo Garcia-Verdugo
A biorefinery strategy is reported, applying telescopic flow chemistry for the efficient conversion of sugar-derived biomass, specifically D-fructose, into valuable nitrile-containing compounds. The approach relies on the use of Task-Specific...
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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC04714E, Paper Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Isabel Hortal-Sánchez, Faysal Ibrahim, Edgard A. Lebrón-Rodríguez, Fabiola Y. Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Grace Gooley, Ruining Ma, Matias Alvear, Ive Hermans, Nelson Cardona-Martínez
The production of difructose anhydride (DFA) from fructose under mild conditions, in a green/bio-derived solvent. Crystal structure created with VESTA, J. Appl. Crystallogr., 2011, 44, 1272–1276.
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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC05283A, Perspective Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Jeroen B. Guinée, Martina G. Vijver
Advancing SSbD requires an effective and efficient regulatory-based data strategy to improve data availability and quality for safety assessments and LCA; without it, new methods may merely become empty promises that avoid the real issue.
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC02751A, PaperAhdo Kim, Teuku Naraski Zahari, Nobuteru Edayoshi, Pin Juo Chou, Toshiki Yamamoto, Pin Yen Chou, Kei Saito, Benjamin Craig McLellan
Petroleum-derived plastics are widely used but rely on non-renewable resources and contribute to environmental degradation during production. Recycling and the adoption of bio-based plastics offer potential solutions within the framework...
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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC04752H, PaperAndré Nogueira, Filipe H. B. Sosa, Ana C. Dias, João A. P. Coutinho, Nicolas Schaeffer
Data-driven LIB recycling: a new ML framework predicts metal leaching yields and evaluates process sustainability through integrated economic and environmental impact assessments.
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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC03953C, Paper Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Garima Saini, Mei Jun Tan, Maximillian G. Stanzione, Ketan Pancholi, Harini Sampathkumar, Matthew Walker, Charlie Patterson, Massimo Vassalli, Aaron B. Naden, Oxana V. Magdysyuk, Jiyu Tian, A. Robert Armstrong, Amit Kumar
This study presents polyetherureas, synthesized via a green, diisocyanate-free route, as a novel aqueous binder for LiFePO4 cathodes in lithium-ion batteries, showing comparable performance to conventional CMC binders. Image created partly using Google Gemini.
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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC04739K, PaperYi-Min Jiang, Cheng-Lin Ding, Guizhen Zhang, Hongbao Sun, Jie Liu
A mild, modular electrochemical method constructs glycomimetics by linking sugars to target molecules. This iodine-mediated, metal- and oxidant-free strategy features a broad substrate scope for efficient bioactive compound synthesis.
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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC04622J, PaperSubhajit Saha, Soumya Ranjan Bag, Abdul Akhir, Deepanshi Saxena, Rahul Maitra, Sidharth Chopra, Chandan K. Jana
Direct diastereoselective C–H indolations of N-heterocycles under metal and oxidant-free conditions have been developed for one-step access to enantioenriched indolyl N-heterocycles as new antibacterial scaffolds against multidrug-resistant strains.
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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC04571A, PaperMaochun Zhu, Xue Bai, Yanli Yang, Ange Zhang, Siyue Wang, Chengyu Sun, Ying Lu, Bin Li, Shuxia Liu
The six-coordinated Zn2+ in polyoxovanadate-based Zn-MOF (1) was tuned to a four-coordinated nanosized 2-NP (50 nm), which exhibited enhanced catalytic activity for the one-pot aerobic oxidation synthesis of benzimidazoles and quinazolinones.
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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC04080A, PaperMan Yang, Shuhao Qin, Youchang Yang, Mingmi Wu, Ting Lei, Yufei Liu, Huiju Shao
This work developed a CEC-leaching process for efficient and eco-friendly recycling of spent LIB cathodes, which avoids secondary pollution, reduces energy and reagent consumption, and aligns with green chemistry and circular economy principles.
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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC05060J, CommunicationZhimin Xu, Zonghao Zhou, Xiaochen Wang, Yuxia Yang, Yi Pan, Yi Wang
A strategy for electrochemical defluorinative functionalization of ArCF3 is presented, providing access to C–S, C–Se, C–H, C–D, and C–C bonds.
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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
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 Cherevan
We systematically study the key process parameters of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) microplastic photoreforming. We uncover that not only hydrogen (H2) but also methane (CH4) is generated and provide valuable mechanistic insights into the process.
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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC04167H, PaperMin-Min Wang, Hong Guo, Zheng-Wu Wang, Yu-Quan Yan, Yi-Zhou Zhu, He-Fang Wang
A new SPG-Si-Al2O3 catalyst made from a simple and easily-scaled-up strategy of solid-phase grinding achieves one-step high-efficiency conversion of lactic acid to lactide.
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