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Green Chem., 2025, 27,6027-6038
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC00648A, PaperKuan Wan, Xue Jiang, Xin-Peng Li, Zhe Cao, Zhen-Hong He, Weitao Wang, Huan Wang, Xiaojuan Lai, Zhao-Tie Liu
A copper foil-based catalyst with abundant interfaces was constructed through electrodeposition to achieve Sb and F dual doping on the copper surface, enabling efficient CH4 production through pulsed CO2 electrolysis.
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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, 27,6039-6055
DOI: 10.1039/D4GC06164K, PaperMathias van der Veer, Nick Daems, Pegie Cool, Tom Breugelmans
A bimetallic CuAg alloy with 1% Ag, offers a promising method to convert captured CO2 to valuable chemicals, such as ethylene and ethanol.
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Green Chem., 2025, 27,5992-6001
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC00535C, Paper Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Antonella Ilenia Alfano, Panagiota M. Kalligosfyri, Valerio Baia, Margherita Brindisi, Stefano Cinti
Green sustainable synthesis minimizes environmental impact by reducing waste, energy use, and hazardous materials, thus promoting safer and efficient methods aligned with ecological principles.
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Green Chem., 2025, 27,5982-5991
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC00248F, PaperYu Zhou, Jiaxing Zhang, Bowen Shen, Wenyan Ba, Shengping You, Mengfan Wang, Rongxin Su, Wei Qi
A simple ethylene glycol catalytic system was developed for efficient PET degradation with a 99.63% conversion rate at mild conditions. The process remains effective at a 100 L scale, offering a sustainable solution for textile waste recycling.
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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, 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/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/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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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC00962F, PaperBidyutjyoti Dutta, Bramhaiah Kommula, Kiran Kanwar, Ankur K. Guha, Ujjal K. Gautam, Diganta Sarma
An efficient photocatalytic route to one pot oxidative synthesis of quinazolin-4(3H)-ones using acidic and oxygenphilic waste derived carbon dots as an inexpensive metal-free photocatalyst cum oxidant.
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC00252D, Paper Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Leo Gräber, Vittorio MARANGON, Manish Kumar, Marcel Weil, Dominic Bresser
Herein, the synthesis and comprehensive characterization of a new, completely fluorine-free single-ion conducting polymer electrolyte (SIPE) for lithium-metal batteries is reported. For this new SIPE, lithium(4-styrenesulfonyl)(dicyanomethide) has been grafted onto...
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Green Chem., 2025, 27,5709-5714
DOI: 10.1039/D4GC06438K, CommunicationCarlos Marquez, Annelore Aerts, Dambarudhar Parida, Illian Glassee, Harisekhar Mitta, Lingfeng Li, Kevin M. Van Geem, Karolien Vanbroekhoven, Elias Feghali, Kathy Elst
The reductive depolymerization of polycarbonate using affordable, heterogeneous and non-noble Ni catalysts was achieved, efficiently breaking down PC back to its monomer, bisphenol-A, in high yields.
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Green Chem., 2025, 27,5728-5735
DOI: 10.1039/D4GC06342B, Paper Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Rana Alimohammadzadeh, Dylan Ferreira, Zine Eddine Hamdouche, Tanel Mõistlik, Armando Córdova
Green chemistry and sustainable technology for the fabrication of hydrophobic heterogeneous polysaccharide-based materials.
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Green Chem., 2025, 27,5715-5727
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC00572H, Paper Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Yiying Xiao, Chia Wei Lim, Linfeng Gao, Ning Yan
Electrosynthesis of nitriles from primary alcohols and ammonia was achieved using a simple Ni catalyst, with the highest benzonitrile faradaic efficiency being 62.9% and yields of up to 61.1%.
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC01723H, Tutorial Review Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Noelia Losada-Garcia, Milica Carević, Marija Ćorović, Ana Milivojević, Nikola M. Nikacevic, Cesar Mateo, Dejan Bezbradica, Jose M. Palomo
Emerging prebiotics, mainly oligosaccharides and phenolic compounds, are gaining increasing attention in the scientific community due to their health benefits and broad industrial potential. Prebiotics are widely used in foods,...
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Green Chem., 2025, 27,5667-5708
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC00278H, Tutorial ReviewDewal S. Deshmukh, Sanjay Singh, Kirtikumar C. Badgujar, Vivek T. Humne, Gajanan V. Korpe, Bhalchandra M. Bhanage
This review focuses on homogeneous recyclable catalytic systems for direct C–H bond functionalization in organic synthesis, eliminating pre-functionalization. It explores recyclable catalysts with various metals and metal-free approaches.
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Green Chem., 2025, 27,5883-5891
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC00702J, PaperXiao-Yan Shen, Guo-Duo Yang, Xin-Yao Huang, Yan-Fei Li, Zhuo Wang, Tong Wang, Ru-Yi Liu, Yi-Han Song, Ming-Xiao Deng, Hai-Zhu Sun
Low-cost, eco-friendly CPDs are designed and synthesized as electrolyte additives to effectively enhance the stability of aqueous ZIBs. This work offers significant advancement in the development of green and clean energy storage devices.
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Green Chem., 2025, 27,5861-5882
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC00688K, Paper Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Harish Radhakrishnan, Abdulrahman A. B. A. Mohammed, Isabel Coffman, Xianglan Bai
Pyrolysis offers an economical method to convert waste plastics into valuable chemicals and fuels. However, the effects of various additives and impurities in waste plastics on the pyrolytic conversion must be better understood.
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Green Chem., 2025, 27,5832-5843
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC01391G, PaperDan Wang, Yu-Xuan Bai, Zi-Xiang Zhou, Wei Cao, Yang-Min Ma, Chao Wang
Phthalimido anchored benzoquinone is selected as monomer for electropolymerization to fabricate the cathode of aqueous ZIBs with ultralong cycling stability.
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Green Chem., 2025, 27,5851-5860
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC00612K, Paper Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Caio V. S. Almeida, Lara K. Ribeiro, Lucia H. Mascaro, Mariolino Carta, Neil B. McKeown, Frank Marken
Binding nitrogen gas into a microporous polymer close to an electrode surface increases the electrochemical production of ammonia.
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