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Green Chem., 2025, 27,9480-9494
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC01539A, Paper Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Xiaoxue Zhao, Ruolin Li, Qiang Yong, Caoxing Huang, Kai Lan
We evaluate the life-cycle environmental performance of producing xylooligosaccharides and bioplastic from poplar sawdust, demonstrating the environmental infeasibility of acetic acid pretreatment for xylooligosaccharides production.
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Green Chem., 2025, 27,9459-9479
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC01721A, PaperHaixiang Li, Kunze Du, Chong Liu, Yumin Yang, Cailin Ye, Xiaoxia Li, Yanxu Chang
A green extraction strategy was developed for bioactives from Verbena officinalis using NADES and MOFs, enabling efficient enrichment, antioxidant activity enhancement, and component analysis supported by DFT and machine learning.
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Green Chem., 2025, 27,9292-9312
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC00061K, Critical ReviewZimin Zhong, Yaqiu Zhao, Xiaolin Luo, Mengjun Xiao, Sibao Liu, Li Shuai, Lu Chen
This review focuses on various activation strategies for cleaving the lignin C–C/C–O bonds while forming new C–C/C–N bonds in the presence of transition metal and metal-free catalysts.
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC02098K, PaperHekun Ding, Yue Pan, Ao Zhan, Jie Lv, Yang Yang, Zhiyuan Yang, James H. Clark, Qiang Yu
A Lignin refinery with high-yields and high-selectivities towards aromatic monomers under mild conditions is challenging. A thermo-photo-catalysis system based on deep eutectic solvents (DESs) and Ru-RuO2/TiO2 is described here and...
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC03066H, Tutorial ReviewHouxu Zhou, Suwei Wang, Pin Song, Yi Zhang, Wei Jiang, Jun Di
Under the background of global carbon neutrality, photocatalytic reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) technology has become a research hotspot due to its sustainability and energy conversion potential. However, traditional photocatalysts...
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC03294F, PaperKai Yang, Wenrui Zhang, Qinghua Deng, Zhiqian Li, Jiancheng Zhang, Quanli Liu, Hao Mo, Nan Zhu
Transition metal selenides (TMSs) with excellent redox reversibility and high capacity have been considered as potential anodes for sodium-ion batteries (SIBs). However, low intrinsic conductivity and volume expansion of TMSs...
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC02308D, Communication Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Hong-Yu Hou, Yuan-Yuan Cheng, Xin-Yu Zhang, Ke Zhang, Hui-Zhen Ren, Kaiyi Su, Zhiyuan Huang, Bin Chen, Chen-Ho Tung, Li-Zhu Wu
Difunctionalization of olefins is effective to construct diverse valuable molecules. However, such reaction always relies on catalysts to control activity and selectivity. Herein, a catalyst-free difunctionalization of olefins with sulfonyl,...
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC03726C, PaperYuxuan Cheng, Zhe Wang, Si-Qi Li, Meixuan Li, Xue Xiao, Yucheng Jiang, Yu Chen
In this work, a novel nano-biohybrid is developed for the efficient synthesis of 2,3-diaminophenazine (DAP), a biologically significant heterocyclic compound, via an electroenzymatic cascade catalysis. The horseradish peroxidase (HRP) is...
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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC03618F, Tutorial Review Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Qi Gan, Jianli Zhang, Xinyu Gong, Yusong Zou, Yajun Yan
Biosensor-aided metabolic engineering is advancing the conversion of lignocellulosic biomass by enabling regulation and optimization of microbial production pathways.
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC01707F, Paper Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Baptiste Bernicot, Guilhem Arrachart, Sandrine Dourdain, Nicolas Schaeffer, Ana Dias, Stéphane Pellet-Rostaing
The sustainable recycling of rare earth elements (REEs) is crucial for the environment due to their role in enabling green technologies. Hydrometallurgical techniques, such as liquid-liquid extraction, are commonly used...
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC02244D, PaperHongwei Ren, Jun-Ming Zhang, Tianjun Hu, Yongfeng Li, Haocheng Zhao, Ergui Luo, He Xiao, Man Zhao, Jingxiao Tang, Jianfeng Jia
Electrocatalytic water splitting is considered as a green and promising strategy for hydrogen production. Replacing the sluggish oxygen evolution reaction (OER) with thermodynamically favorable ethylene glycol oxidation reaction (EGOR) enables...
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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC02519B, Perspective Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Merlin Kleoff, Franziska Klaucke, Patrick Voßnacker, Rainer Weber, Karsten Neuhoff, Sebastian Riedel
Chlorine is an essential feedstock for polymers and pharmaceuticals, with annual production exceeding 100 Mt.
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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC01462J, Critical Review Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Clément Spadetto, Cyril Hachemi, Mathieu S. Prévot
In the context of the defossilization of the chemical industry, integrating solar-powered chemical transformation into biorefinery plants unlocks novel strategies and synergies for future plant designs.
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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC01806D, Paper Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Giorgia Crigna, Davide Moscatelli, Tuomo Sainio
A series of hydroxycarboxylic acids (HAs) with excellent hydrophilic properties are produced from alkali treatment of cellulose-containing materials. These HAs are then used in the production of biobased amide surfactants using mechanochemistry.
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Green Chem., 2025, 27,9332-9356
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC02037A, Critical ReviewYuxuan Xu, Yuan Gao, Liguang Dou, Dengke Xi, Chong Qi, Baowang Lu, Tao Shao
This review analyzes recent advances and limitations in low-temperature plasma-enabled CO2 dissociation setups and mechanisms, proposing a strategic outlook for the techno-economic feasibility toward scale-up valorization.
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Green Chem., 2025, 27,9531-9540
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC00630A, Paper Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Daniel Barker, Shannon Whitty, Tobias Robert, Parisa Bayat, Marc A. Dubé, Michael F. Cunningham, Guojun Liu, Philip G. Jessop
Combining renewable resources with CO2-responsive functionalities produced a pressure sensitive adhesive with adhesive properties like commercial cellophane tapes but can be easily removed from substrates using carbonated water at the end of life.
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Green Chem., 2025, 27,9559-9568
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC02092A, PaperYeteng Gong, Hengyue Xu, Yongsheng Li, Yaxuan Jing, Xiaohui Liu, Yanqin Wang, Yong Guo
Aqueous-phase reforming (APR) of methanol has emerged as a promising approach for hydrogen production.
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Green Chem., 2025, 27,9569-9577
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC02071A, PaperBeibei Tan, Ming Lv, Xiaotian Qi, Zhiliang Huang
A novel hydrogenation-induced hydrothermal degradation strategy was demonstrated for upcycling of a range of real-life PET wastes into high-value 1,4-cyclohexanedicarboxylic acid (1,4-CHDA) and ethylene glycol (EG) in excellent yields under simple neutral water conditions.
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Green Chem., 2025, 27,9414-9438
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC02487K, Tutorial ReviewHong-Ru Li, Chao-Yang Jing, Shan-Shan Chen, Alexander O. Terent'ev, Liang-Nian He
Electrolytic olefin epoxidation is a sustainable alternative to the thermocatalytic epoxidation. This article provides a state of the art overview in this field, focusing on the formation strategy of the reactive oxygen species.
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Green Chem., 2025, 27,9313-9331
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC00220F, Critical ReviewLing Lei, Haohao Liu, Yunxiang Bai, Chunfang Zhang, Mingjie Yin, Wentao Wang, Liangliang Dong
CO2-responsive membrane separation systems represent an exciting separation technology owing to their ability to achieve controlled and efficient separation processes.
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