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Enzymatic synthesis of health-beneficial oligoindoles using peroxidase
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC01951F, PaperDan Liu, Heng Peng Zhang, Jia Cheng Qian, Yi Wang, Su Juan Ren, Ren Xiang Tan
This work presents enzymatic synthesis of four health-beneficial oligoindoles (DIM, LTr1, LTe2, and LTr3) using peroxidase. Green chemistry metrics and EcoScale score evaluations supported this method as a green protocol.
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Aqueous choline acetate as reaction medium for the oxidation of kraft lignin with hydrogen peroxide
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC00624D, PaperCosimo Annese, Michele Casiello, Caterina Fusco, Antonio Monopoli, Lucia D'Accolti
A choline-based ionic liquid (IL) has been used for the first time as a solvent for the oxidative depolymerization of lignin with hydrogen peroxide, offering a greener alternative to the more popular but environmentally unfriendly imidazolium ILs.
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Chemical looping hydrogen production from ammonia and water: materials and technoeconomics
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC00236B, Paper


Chemical looping hydrogen production from ammonia and water enables energy efficient and cost effective ammonia to hydrogen conversion.
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Shedding light on covalent organic framework photocatalysts: concept, design strategies, and applications-a review
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC01774B, Critical ReviewIrshad Ahamd, Gao Li, Marwan M. Abduljawad, Mohammed Qasem Alfaifi, Yousef I. Alrashed, Fahad M. Albaqi
Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) have gained significant attention as photocatalysts due to their high crystallinity, tunable porosity, and exceptional optoelectronic properties, particularly their ability to absorb a broad range of visible light.
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Mechanochemical nitration of arenes and alcohols using a bench-stable organic nitrating reagent
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC02232K, Communication


Rapid, efficient, and sustainable protocols for the electrophilic nitration of various alcohols and aromatic compounds under mechanochemical conditions have been introduced.
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NaBH4-assisted reconstruction of binary micro-domains on a Cu electrode for the selective production of green ammonia
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC02206A, CommunicationJincheng Zhang, Chengyong Xing, Shanna An, Fanshi Meng, Zhanning Liu, Ruixiang Ge, Min Ma, Jiali Ren, Jian Tian
It is of both ecological and economic benefit to convert the pollutant nitrate (NO3−) into valuable NH3via electrochemical nitrate reduction (NO3RR) technology.
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Co-upcycling of mixed polypropylene and polyesters
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC00561B, PaperXiangyue Wei, Qiang Zhang, Chengfeng Shen, Pengbo Ye, Jiaying Xu, Xuehui Liu, Zhishan Su, Shimei Xu, Yu-Zhong Wang
Mixed plastic waste management has long been a major challenge owing to complex compositions of plastic wastes and high sorting costs.
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Electrochemical vicinal amidoselenation of unactivated olefins via a tandem Ritter reaction
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC01259G, CommunicationWei Xu, Nana Zhang, Chenyu Li, Haodong Ma, Bin Wang, Ziren Chen, Yu Xia, Shaofeng Wu, Weiwei Jin, Penji Yan, Chenjiang Liu, Yonghong Zhang
An electrochemical amidoselenation of unactivated olefins via a selenylation/Ritter tandem reaction has been developed.
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Deciphering the synergistic role of chemisorbed phosphate on FeOOH for high-efficiency overall water splitting
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC01624J, PaperXiaoqian Du, Junjun Zhang, Mengyuan Zhang, Huilong Wei, Xiu Lin, Wen Guo, Pengfei Zhang, Zhenghong Luo
An iron-based catalyst was synthesized via a wet-chemical method using inexpensive raw materials. By modifying the electrolyte composition, the properties of the catalyst were systematically tuned, thereby enhancing the efficiency of water splitting.
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Electrochemically driven tandem addition–cyclization: synthesis of thiadiazinanes and thiophosphonates
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC01831E, PaperHonghao Zhou, Yike Zhang, Liting Ma, Xiangyang Liu, Chun Zhang, Feifei Tong, Dandan Hu, Jun-Qi Zhang, Jianguo Yang
An iodine-catalyzed electrochemical strategy for the sustainable synthesis of 1,2,5-thiadiazinanes and thiophosphonates was developed. This strategy demonstrates excellent functional group tolerance, sustainability, and facile scale-up potential.
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Enhanced electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction, oxygen evolution reaction and biomass oxidation over Ce-doped NiPxvia 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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Machine learning-guided optimization for ionic liquid-based polyethylene terephthalate waste recycling
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC01998B, Paper


Machine learning-based ionic liquid design and reaction condition optimization towards unified economic and environmental performance indicators.
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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


Barochemistry, 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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“On water” metal-free direct C–H amination and imination of olefins via tandem SNAr, click chemistry, and molecular nitrogen release
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC01076D, Paper


The hydrophobic effect of water facilitates clean and sustainable tandem transformations involving SNAr, click, and nitrogen evolution reactions, leading to metal-free C–H amination chemistry.
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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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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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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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