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A novel and sustainable continuous-flow approach for atom deletion and insertion by electrophilic nitrogen transfer
DOI: 10.1039/D6GC01875K, Paper
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  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Niamh Disney, Laura Marraffa, Mert Can Ince, Philipp Natho, Marco Colella, Gianvito Vilé, Marcus Baumann, Renzo LuisiA unified continuous-flow protocol for electrophilic nitrogen transfer enables skeletal editing via N-insertion, deletion, nitrile formation and aziridination, with sustainability validated through life cycle assessment and techno-economic analysis.
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Concise chemical synthesis of O-linked glycans
DOI: 10.1039/D6GC01945E, PaperYaohao Li, Wenqiang Liu, Chunyu Jin, Huanjie Zhu, Zerun Song, Jiongkun Peng, Chong Guo, Zhongping Tan
A concise divergent strategy affords 10 core-1 type O-linked glycoamino acid building blocks. Their availability enables homogeneous GHRH glycoform preparation and reveals that Thr7 O-glycosylation improves proteolytic stability against DPP-IV.
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Sustainable recovery of spent lithium-ion battery cathode via biomass reduction strategy
DOI: 10.1039/D6GC02491B, Critical ReviewYafei Shen, Pin Zhou
This paper critically evaluates two complementary routes of biomass reductive leaching and biomass reductive roasting for recovery of valuable metals from spent lithium-ion batteries (LIBs).
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Fully bio-based cellulose vitrimers with dynamic enamine bonds: toward recyclable and micropatternable green materials
DOI: 10.1039/D6GC02499H, PaperLingxian Kong, Zitong Wang, Mingshuai Guo, Xiaofeng Sui, Zhiping Mao, Bijia Wang, Liduo Rong, Xueling Feng
A fully bio-based, catalyst-free cellulose vitrimer is developed based on cellulose acetoacetate and a plant oil-derived diamine, exhibiting excellent mechanical properties, multi-cycle recyclability, and acid-responsive micropatterning capability.
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Sustainable eutectic electrolytes for aluminum-ion batteries: design and recent advances
DOI: 10.1039/D6GC02365G, Tutorial ReviewWen Zhuang, Xingru Chen, Wei Qin, Beibei Yang, Yongzheng Zhang, Hongbin Lu, Duan Bin
This work highlights the design principles, interfacial regulation mechanisms, and electrochemical advantages of eutectic electrolytes for enabling high-performance and stable aluminum-ion batteries.
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Color stripping of dyed textile waste
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC06662J, Critical Review
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  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Md. Reazuddin Repon, Ali R. Tehrani-BaghaA closed-loop textile recycling process integrates color stripping to convert textile waste into high-quality fabrics for new products. This approach reduces dye contamination, conserves resources, and supports circular textile manufacturing.
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Resolving PC–graphite incompatibility via steric-hindrance-directed interfacial regulation
DOI: 10.1039/D6GC02204A, PaperHuayi Qian, Yongkang Wei, Zihao Wang, Kean Chen, Rong Chen, Xinping Ai, Hui Li
A minute OFT additive enables PC–graphite compatibility via interfacial steric hindrance and weak solvation.
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Correction: Dual modulation of electronic and crystalline structures in PtCo alloys for high-performance fuel cells
Green Chem., 2026, 28,9925-9925
DOI: 10.1039/D6GC90112C, Correction
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  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Si Lin, Ziyu Zhang, Yunlong Zhang, Yunfei Xia, Miao Ma, Lixiao Shen, Xin Wang, Shengdi Tian, Zigang Zhao, Wen Ye, Aibing Chen, Xiaofei Gong, Lei Zhao, Zhenbo Wang
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DOI: 10.1039/D6GC90112C, Correction
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  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Si Lin, Ziyu Zhang, Yunlong Zhang, Yunfei Xia, Miao Ma, Lixiao Shen, Xin Wang, Shengdi Tian, Zigang Zhao, Wen Ye, Aibing Chen, Xiaofei Gong, Lei Zhao, Zhenbo WangThe content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Correction: Exploring the robust engineered ω-transaminase for manufacturing biobased amines from biomass-derived aldehydes
Green Chem., 2026, 28,9924-9924
DOI: 10.1039/D6GC90105K, Correction
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  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Qi Li, Junhua Di, Zhengyu Tang, Qing Li, Zhiyi Lu, Die Hu, Yu-Cai He, Cuiluan Ma
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DOI: 10.1039/D6GC90105K, Correction
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Upcycling waste PET into functional multiblock copolymers through controlled macromolecular design
DOI: 10.1039/D6GC01907B, Paper
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  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Shelby Watson-Sanders, Alison Biery, Karina Guerrero, Nicholas J. Galan, Tomonori Saito, Brian K. Long, Mark D. DadmunDepolymerization of post-consumer PET yields telechelic oligomers that enable upcycling into novel multiblock copolymers.
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Engineering an HEA/CN Schottky heterojunction with high-entropy and cocktail effects for enhanced charge separation in photocatalytic xylose oxidation
DOI: 10.1039/D6GC01412G, PaperZhe Zheng, Yushun Han, Weikang Ling, Min Hong, Jiliang Ma, Runcang Sun
Noble metal catalysts face multiple challenges in photocatalytic applications, including high cost, limited active sites, and insufficient stability.
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Photo-mechanochemistry: a new paradigm for coupled energy inputs in sustainable chemical processing?
DOI: 10.1039/D6GC02591A, Perspective
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  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Jesús A. Camez-Cota, Daily Rodríguez-Padrón, Andrés Castro-Beltrán, Paulette Gómez-López, Gabriel Blázquez, Mónica Calero, Clemente G. Alvarado-Beltrán, Mario J. Muñoz-BatistaMechanochemistry and photocatalysis have emerged as sustainable strategies for driving chemical transformations and can be combined to synergistically enhance the efficiency of the processes. Parts of the image have been created using Google Gemini.
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Enhanced photo-enzyme CO2 reduction using PEI-modified TPDE/SFN-FE photoenzyme composite catalysts
DOI: 10.1039/D6GC01620K, PaperLin Zhang, Feng Xue, Shengxin Zhang, Qingyang Ye, Xinyuan Tang, Liang Zhou
The “two-in-one” photo-enzymatic system achieves efficient CO2 reduction under light, yielding formic acid at 5580 μmol g−1 h−1. It presents a promising strategy for sustainable CO2 conversion toward carbon neutrality.
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Chemo-enzymatic cascade synthesis of D-danshensu and its derivatives from lignin
DOI: 10.1039/D6GC01908K, PaperSiyu Qi, Xiaoyi Zhai, Zhonghao Chen, Lei Wang, Lei Ji, Haocheng Zhuang, Weisheng Yang, Hanjie Ying, Zhuotao Tan, Chenjie Zhu
A chemo-enzymatic cascade strategy converts lignin from pine into D-danshensu and its derivative, offering an economically viable and more sustainable alternative to traditional plant extraction.
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Dynamic conformation-aware protein language modeling enables structure-guided engineering of Candida antarctica lipase B
DOI: 10.1039/D6GC00310A, PaperYuqi Dong, Jidong Shen, Meng Zhang, Lianggang Huang, Xiaojian Zhang, Zhiqiang Liu, Yuguo Zheng
This study presents a dynamic conformation-aware protein language modeling (DC-PLM) strategy for engineering Candida antarctica lipase B (CALB), enabling enhanced long-chain ester hydrolysis and green valorization of industrial waste oils.
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Performance of composite oxygen carriers for plasma-assisted nitrogen fixation and ammonia synthesis
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC06222E, PaperBaiqiang Zhang, Yongqi Liang, Jia Wang, Xi Chen, Anqi Li, Yuyang Zhang, Yuhui Chen, Shiquan Zhu, Nobusuke Kobayashi, Bo Wu
High oxygen vacancy (Ov)-rich nitrogen carriers are developed via the synergy between plasma and oxygen carriers, significantly enhancing NH3 yield.
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Nitrogen source-regulated biomass-based COF@CNF aerogel: achieving efficient photothermal–photocatalytic synergy
DOI: 10.1039/D6GC01211F, PaperRanran Ji, Yaning Xu, Menglu Yang, Chengxu Zhou, Tiantian Wu, Yujie Zhao, Qing Huang, Dan Tian
A COF@CNF evaporator integrating aligned CNF microchannels and nitrogen-engineered COFs enables simultaneous efficient solar evaporation and photocatalytic H2O2 production.
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Radical-driven upcycling of spent graphite into defect-controllable nitrogen-doped graphene for sustainable energy storage
DOI: 10.1039/D6GC01392A, PaperXiangfei Zeng, Yunhui Han, Huimin Yang, Hao Li, Anlong Han, Qian Liang, Ling Hu, Rong Wang, Mengjun Chen
Unveiling a radical-driven wedge-cleavage mechanism in suspension electrolysis for the green upcycling of spent battery graphite. This yields high-value N-doped graphene tailored for efficient OER and supercapacitor applications.
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Ionic liquids for sustainable lignin biorefinery: from dissolution mechanisms to electrocatalytic upgrading
DOI: 10.1039/D6GC01240J, Tutorial ReviewZiqi Zhai, Yumiao Lu, Wei-Lu Ding, Yuxuan Guo, Songsong Chen, Hongyan He, Suojiang Zhang
Ionic liquids integrate dissolution and electrocatalysis to overcome lignin recalcitrance, enabling lignin valorization.
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Low-voltage suspension electrolysis enables redox-coupled synergistic leaching for closed-loop recycling of mixed NCM-LFP cathodes
DOI: 10.1039/D6GC01668E, PaperKenan Zhong, Fucheng Wang, Wenke Liu, Zhuo Ye, Xueyang Hou, Kai Yang, Zhao Fang
Low-voltage suspension electrolysis enables reductant-free synergistic leaching of mixed NCM/LFP cathodes via Fe-mediated redox coupling, achieving >98% metal recovery and enabling closed-loop regeneration of battery materials with low energy input.
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