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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/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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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC04611D, PaperBasavarajagouda E. Patil, Rahul Tarkase, Rajdeep Paul, Gopalan Rajaraman, Deepti Kalsi
The development of environmentally benign photocatalytic methodologies for [2 + 2] cycloadditions is of significant interest, given their utility in accessing cyclobutane motifs found in natural products and pharmaceuticals.
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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC05391A, PaperShanquan Liang, Zhiyao Peng, Xue Xia, Kaixing Xiao, Zhao Qin, Xuemei Liu, Fanzhen Lin, Mengdie Wang, Saimeng Jin, James H. Clark, Dan Wang
An electro-enzymatic coupling platform was established by coupling the multi-enzyme cascade system with electrochemistry for effective regeneration of NADH to produce L-lactate.
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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/D5GC04148A, PaperShaoxiong Yang, Yanren Zhu, Enfan Pu, Piaopiao Jiang, Xiong Li, Hongbin Zhang, Jingbo Chen
We report an efficient protocol for dearomative [3 + 2] cycloadditions of indoles and benzofurans with vinyl azides via linear paired electrolysis under redox-neutral conditions.
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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/D5GC04383B, PaperYating Hou, Xiaoli Sun, Shan Lu, Ningyuan Song, Yanru Liu, Shu Yang, Fangxu Dai, Yunmei Du, Lei Wang
Cr–NiPv/IF with a ‘Pv–Cr dopant structure’ was innovatively constructed using a ‘phosphorization-quenching’ technique. Under the effect of the ‘Pv–Cr dopant composite structure’, Cr–NiPv/IF only requires 240 mV to deliver 1 A cm−2 for alkaline HER.
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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC05467B, PaperXinlei Wei, Yongsheng Sun, Peng Gao, Xiaotong Wei
Desulfurized gypsum (DG), a large-volume industrial by-product, was repurposed as a green sulfidation reagent for the recovery of cuprite through a sustainable sulfidation roasting–flotation process.
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC04541J, PaperXin Ge, Can-Quan Ye, Mei Huang, Meng-Ning Wang, Jie-Yu Chen, Riyuan Tang, Bo Yang
The direct catalytic coupling of feedstock chemicals to construct complex scaffolds is a central challenge in synthetic chemistry. Here we report a metallaphotoredox strategy enabling direct allylic C(sp³)-H acylation of...
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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC04690D, PaperSonglin Liu, Min Hu, Wenbin Zhang, Shiqi Li, Yuchen Lei, Wei Zhao
Our three-chamber flow cell enables efficient 4-aminophenol synthesis and in-situ separation via cation shuttling, eliminating concentrated electrolyte. The process is a feasible, cost-effective route from 4-nitrophenol to paracetamol.
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Green Chem., 2025, 27,14807-14823
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC02201K, PaperWen-Dong Wan, Su-Rong Sun, Chao Wang, Yury Gorbanev, Hai-Xing Wang, Annemie Bogaerts
A novel DBD reactor with continuous flowing water as the ground electrode is designed, which achieved a significant improvement in nitrogen fixation rate by optimizing the discharge parameters and integrating with photocatalyst.
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC02890F, PaperKaipeng Wu, Wenlong Cai, Xiaobo Sun, Tuan Wang, Yun Zhang, Enhao Xu, Hao Wu, Zhimin Liu
LiMnxFe1-xPO4 cathode material, which demonstrates higher energy density compared to LiFePO4 along with unique physicochemical properties, has attracted extensive research attention for high-performance lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). However, conventional synthesis methods...
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC04249F, PaperWei Ji, Wenjie Zhang, Chen Deng, Yuwei Xiong, Qi HAO, Hao Zhang, Bing Song, Wenlei Zhu, Dekui Shen, Jason Chun-Ho Lam, Richen Lin
Nickel-based electrocatalysts are pivotal for converting biomass-derived 5-hydroxymethylfurfural to 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA), a key renewable precursor for biopolymers. However, their industrial adoption is limited by sluggish proton transfer kinetics, which...
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC03411F, PaperShiyu Wang, Likun Zhao, He Ye, Zhan Shi, Huakui Zhang, Fengyin Zhou, Simin Xu, Lei Xing, Dihua Wang, Huayi Yin
Due to the outstanding properties in improving interfacial phenomena and battery performance, non-ionic Tween/Span surfactants have been widely applied in the battery field. However, although Tween/Span was classified as a...
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC05590C, Perspective Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Jean-Paul Lange
Defossilizing fuels & Chemicals:We have the renewable feedstocks and the technology. But we miss the societal support. How can progress the defossilisation?Broader ContextClimate change will force society to abandon the...
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