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Solvent-free infrared polymerization of lactic acid: toward greener PLA production
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC06684K, PaperMaria Montrone, Cosimo Cardellicchio, Jennifer Gubitosa, Paola Fini, Mattia Di Maro, Donatella Duraccio, Paola Amazio, Pietro Cotugno, Gianluca M. Farinola, Maria Annunziata M. Capozzi
A solvent-free approach to the direct polymerization of lactic acid is reported. IR irradiation ensures efficient heating, while acid catalysts promote dehydrative condensation under atmospheric pressure, enabling a green, zero-waste process.
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Evaluation of a lab-scale ionic liquid synthesis using life cycle assessment
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC06385J, Paper
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  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Rhea Mathew, Sirui Chen, Agnieszka Brandt-Talbot, Jacqueline S. Edge, Tom WeltonLife cycle assessment of a lab-scale ionic liquid synthesis: project methodology flowchart, single damage score comparison, and recommendations.
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Biodegradable polyurethane non-tackifier pressure-sensitive adhesive derived from cashew nut shells
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC05627F, PaperSeo Jeong Hur, Yongha Jeon, Haemin Jeong, Jimin Shim, Jihoon Shin, Kwon Yong Choi, U Hyeok Choi, Hee Joong Kim
A cardanol-derived polyurethane pressure-sensitive adhesive exhibits strong adhesion without tackifiers and rapid degradability under mild conditions, enabled by unsaturated alkyl chains.
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PET-upcycled and biobased hyperbranched polyesters for self-healable and flame-retardant powder coatings
DOI: 10.1039/D6GC00220J, PaperSong Gu, Jingjing Du, Yaqiong Zhang, Wangcheng Liu, Gustavo de Figueiredo Brito, Yiding Cao, Baoming Zhao, Jinwen Zhang
Upcycled PET-derived phosphorus-containing hyperbranched polyesters, combined with a biobased resveratrol epoxy, enable VOC-free powder coatings with self-healing, fire safety, and practical performance.
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Synchronous recognition of P–intermediates and nucleophiles empowers diversified trivalent phosphorus synthesis
Green Chem., 2026, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D6GC00555A, PaperXue Liu, Jingcheng Hu, Chengbiao Zhu, Dake Wang, Jia Yan, Jinyu Wang, Zhenwei Wei, Yong Yuan, Hong Yi, Aiwen Lei
Trivalent phosphines bearing P–X bonds are valuable intermediates, antioxidants, ligands, and functional agents, yet their sustainable and selective synthesis remains challenging. Here we present a synchronous identification strategy for P-intermediates...
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DOI: 10.1039/D6GC00555A, PaperXue Liu, Jingcheng Hu, Chengbiao Zhu, Dake Wang, Jia Yan, Jinyu Wang, Zhenwei Wei, Yong Yuan, Hong Yi, Aiwen Lei
Trivalent phosphines bearing P–X bonds are valuable intermediates, antioxidants, ligands, and functional agents, yet their sustainable and selective synthesis remains challenging. Here we present a synchronous identification strategy for P-intermediates...
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Machine Learning Framework to Predict Glass Transition Temperature in Natural Deep Eutectic Solvents: A Step toward Green Functional Materials
Green Chem., 2026, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D6GC01009A, Paper Open Access 
  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Durbek Usmanov, Priyanka Yadav, Gerardo M. Casanola-Martin, Akshat Mallya, Seyedehelham Shirvanihosseini, Allison Hubel, Bakhtiyor Rasulev
Natural Deep Eutectic Solvents (NADES) are a promising class of sustainable and environmentally-safe solvents with highly tunable physicochemical properties, including the glass transition temperature, which is critical for their functional...
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DOI: 10.1039/D6GC01009A, Paper
Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Durbek Usmanov, Priyanka Yadav, Gerardo M. Casanola-Martin, Akshat Mallya, Seyedehelham Shirvanihosseini, Allison Hubel, Bakhtiyor RasulevNatural Deep Eutectic Solvents (NADES) are a promising class of sustainable and environmentally-safe solvents with highly tunable physicochemical properties, including the glass transition temperature, which is critical for their functional...
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CO₂-Enabled Electrochemical Selective Deuterodefluorination of β,γ-Unsaturated α,α-Difluoroesters with Tunable Alkene Deuteration
Green Chem., 2026, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D6GC01929C, PaperYuhang Dong, Ping Lv, Yingying Chen, Yanni Yue, Xiaoli Bu, Hong-Ping Deng, Mengtao Ma, Fei Xue
Recent advances in deuteration, including C-F bond deuterodefluorination and alkene reductive deuteration, have enabled site-selective isotope labeling of bioactive molecules and functional materials. Nevertheless, most methods rely on precious metals,...
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DOI: 10.1039/D6GC01929C, PaperYuhang Dong, Ping Lv, Yingying Chen, Yanni Yue, Xiaoli Bu, Hong-Ping Deng, Mengtao Ma, Fei Xue
Recent advances in deuteration, including C-F bond deuterodefluorination and alkene reductive deuteration, have enabled site-selective isotope labeling of bioactive molecules and functional materials. Nevertheless, most methods rely on precious metals,...
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Electrochemical Nitrate-to-Ammonia Conversion over a Broad Concentration Range via a Hollow Co3O4/CuO Catalyst
Green Chem., 2026, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D6GC00484A, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Li Yao, Shao YE, Zhe Li, Mingjie Tuo, Yibin Cui, Zhenbin Wang, Zhenhua Xie, Wenlei Zhu, Bo Shen
Widespread nitrate contamination in water challenges both aquatic ecosystems and drinking water safety, and the electrocatalytic nitrate reduction to ammonia (eNRA) presents a promising sustainable way to convert pollutants to...
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DOI: 10.1039/D6GC00484A, Paper
Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Li Yao, Shao YE, Zhe Li, Mingjie Tuo, Yibin Cui, Zhenbin Wang, Zhenhua Xie, Wenlei Zhu, Bo ShenWidespread nitrate contamination in water challenges both aquatic ecosystems and drinking water safety, and the electrocatalytic nitrate reduction to ammonia (eNRA) presents a promising sustainable way to convert pollutants to...
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Hydrogen Isotope Exchange of Multisubstituted Alkenes Catalyzed by Zeolite
Green Chem., 2026, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D6GC00499G, PaperYuan Gao, Feiyu Qiu, Yi Chen, Huize Li, Andi Zou, Zhanhong Zheng, Xinhao Tang, Aiwen Lei, Wu Li
Olefins are widely present in natural products and synthetic drugs, and also serve as building blocks in organic synthesis. However, deuterated multisubstituted alkenes are rarely reported, owing to structural limitations...
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DOI: 10.1039/D6GC00499G, PaperYuan Gao, Feiyu Qiu, Yi Chen, Huize Li, Andi Zou, Zhanhong Zheng, Xinhao Tang, Aiwen Lei, Wu Li
Olefins are widely present in natural products and synthetic drugs, and also serve as building blocks in organic synthesis. However, deuterated multisubstituted alkenes are rarely reported, owing to structural limitations...
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Radical-mediated conversion of methane and water to light alcohols
DOI: 10.1039/D6GC01413E, CommunicationZeyu Gao, Di Li, Yuping Yang, Chenxin Wu, Li Wang, Zhaolun Cui, Lei Hua, Haiyang Li, Chong Peng, Dehui Deng, Yanhui Yi
This work offers valuable insights for green methane conversion, representing a significant advancement in process simplification and sustainability.
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Two-step sequential reactions involving supercritical CO2 and photocatalysis for PET degradation and hydrogen production
DOI: 10.1039/D6GC00641H, PaperYanbing Liu, Jinwen Shi, Zitong Zhuang, Xing Kang, Wenbo Xiao, Binjiang Zhai, Mengyuan Zhu, Hui Jin, Liejin Guo
This study combined supercritical CO2 and photocatalysis to hydrolyze plastic into monomers and converted them into valuable chemicals with simultaneous H2 production, achieving green upcycling of waste plastic under mild conditions.
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Recovery of silver from end-of-life silicon solar panels through a peroxymonosulfate-based advanced oxidation approach
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC06177F, PaperZhaoyi Yang, Longyan Chang, Weijun Zhang, Dongsheng Wang
In PMS/Fe2+, high-valent Fe(IV is generated, which converts PMS to singlet oxygen (1O2) and sulfate radicals (SO4˙−). These reactive species oxidize Ag0 to soluble Ag+, enabling rapid and efficient silver leaching from end-of-life silicon solar cells.
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Reclaiming carbon fibres: a green catalytic route for low-temperature CFRP recycling
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC06006K, CommunicationYunzi Xin, Mai Goto, Takashi Shirai
A green catalytic strategy enables low-temperature recycling of CFRP, selectively removing the resin matrix and recovering structurally preserved carbon fibres for sustainable reuse.
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Accurately regulating the Ni coordination environment via atomic layer deposition and enabling efficient CO2 electroreduction
DOI: 10.1039/D6GC01127F, PaperXian Liu, Shuangfeng Xing, Jijie Li, Wen-Yan Zan, Zhe Gao, Fengwei Zhang
The 5Ni@NC-400H catalyst with Ni2N6 sites showed 99.5% of FECO for CO2RR to CO at −0.77 V and FECO retained >99% from −0.37 to −1.17 V vs. RHE in flow cell. The CO2 activation at Ni2N6 sites occurs via bridging absorption of reaction intermediates.
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An emulsifier- and organic solvent-free one-step method for fabricating nano-encapsulated phase change materials
DOI: 10.1039/D6GC00361C, PaperJiayi Liu, Jiao Wu, Linbo Guan, Zhonghua Wang, Yulong Xiao, Xiaowei Fu, Liang Jiang, Jingxin Lei, Yuan Lei, Yao Xiao
An emulsifier- and organic solvent-free one-step method is introduced for the fabrication of NePCMs. The resulting NePCM exhibited a unique interpenetrating core–shell structure, and demonstrated a high encapsulation efficiency of 96.3%.
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Photothermal catalytic CO2 hydrogenation to methanol
Green Chem., 2026, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D6GC00690F, Tutorial ReviewJie Lin, Chunxue Jiao, Zhenjie Wang, Haihua Yin, Xingchao Dai
Utilization of waste CO2 to replace traditional fossil-based resource for production of valuable fuels or chemicals is an ideal strategy to release the pressure in energy and enviroment. As a...
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DOI: 10.1039/D6GC00690F, Tutorial ReviewJie Lin, Chunxue Jiao, Zhenjie Wang, Haihua Yin, Xingchao Dai
Utilization of waste CO2 to replace traditional fossil-based resource for production of valuable fuels or chemicals is an ideal strategy to release the pressure in energy and enviroment. As a...
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Rhodium catalyst immobilization in trialkylamine-functionalized ionic liquids as a new efficient way to promote biphasic reductive hydroformylation of methyl 10-undecenoate
DOI: 10.1039/D6GC01402J, PaperCamille Galand, Jérémy Ternel, Nicolas Kania, Frédéric Capet, Hervé Bricout, Sébastien Tilloy, Eric Monflier, Michel Ferreira
In this work, trialkylamine-functionalized ionic liquids were assessed for their dual role as solvents and ligands in the biphasic reductive hydroformylation of methyl 10-undecenoate (MU), a renewable substrate derived from castor oil.
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Synthesis of thermo-shear-responsive dynamic covalent networks based on humins and the Diels–Alder reaction
DOI: 10.1039/D6GC00070C, Paper
Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Dilhan Kandemir, Meghana Mekala, Ruth Cardinaels, Peter Van Puyvelde, Anton GinzburgBiorefinery-derived humins act as diene sources in Diels–Alder chemistry, showing high endo selectivity and enabling the formation of dynamic covalent networks.
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Lithium leaching–induced activation of spent LFP composites for enhanced water oxidation with concurrent lithium recovery
DOI: 10.1039/D6GC00526H, PaperZhihan Xu, Lun Li, Jingwen Wei, Haojing Zhang, Chao Wu, Yilin Dong, Shibo Xi, Tianze Wu, Kangkang Tong, Xia Long, Bora Karasulu, Zhichuan J. Xu, Ye Zhou
This research transforms a previously ignored phenomenon—lithium leaching—into a powerful design tool, turning an environmental liability (spent LFP) into a high-performance OER catalyst while recovering a critical resource (lithium).
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Bioconversion of an untapped lignin monomer into a new pyridine-dicarboxylic acid building block
DOI: 10.1039/D6GC00315J, Paper
Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Pablo Espada-Núñez, Gonzalo Durante-Rodríguez, Dominic Aboagye, Francesc Medina, Marta Fernández-García, Alexandra Muñoz-Bonilla, Carlos del Cerro-Sánchez, Eduardo DíazScheme of the valorization of lignin-derived homovanillic acid to the new building block 2,5-CPDCA for the production of PBCP polyester.
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