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Scalable Green Sustainable Photosynthesis of H2O2: Catalyst-free H Radical Generation and ORR Under Sunlight
Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC04018C, PaperMeng Liu, Qi Miao, Xiao-Yuan Zhou, Dan Luo, Hong-Li Wei, Pan Wu, Changjun Liu, Wei Jiang
Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) sunlight-driven green synthesis is a desirable demand, but current photo-catalysis fail to meet industry demand due to slow rate, excessive oxidation and uneconomic steps. This study proposes...
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DOI: 10.1039/D5GC04018C, PaperMeng Liu, Qi Miao, Xiao-Yuan Zhou, Dan Luo, Hong-Li Wei, Pan Wu, Changjun Liu, Wei Jiang
Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) sunlight-driven green synthesis is a desirable demand, but current photo-catalysis fail to meet industry demand due to slow rate, excessive oxidation and uneconomic steps. This study proposes...
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Direct C–H Alkylation, Acylation, and Silylation of N-heteroarenes Enabled by the Self-Quenching of Quinolinone
Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC04299B, PaperBin Sun, Jianjie Wang, Qian Zhang, Yuanyi Chen, Yan Xu, Xiaohui Zhuang, Chun Lv, Xiao Yang, Weike Su, Can Jin
Direct C–H functionalization of N-heterocycles via C–H/C–H cross-dehydrogenative coupling constitutes a fundamentally significant approach for the late-stage diversification of complex natural products and biologically active molecules. Herein, we report a...
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DOI: 10.1039/D5GC04299B, PaperBin Sun, Jianjie Wang, Qian Zhang, Yuanyi Chen, Yan Xu, Xiaohui Zhuang, Chun Lv, Xiao Yang, Weike Su, Can Jin
Direct C–H functionalization of N-heterocycles via C–H/C–H cross-dehydrogenative coupling constitutes a fundamentally significant approach for the late-stage diversification of complex natural products and biologically active molecules. Herein, we report a...
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Green and robust chitin hydrogel toward high-performance Zn anode for sustainable energy storage
Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC03960F, PaperYuyang Yan, Haodong Zhang, Yanbo Zhu, Xiaotang Gan, Jinping Zhou
Aqueous zinc batteries (AZBs) have garnered significant attention for green energy storage due to their inherent advantages in high environmental compatibility and low cost. However, challenges such as uncontrollable Zn...
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DOI: 10.1039/D5GC03960F, PaperYuyang Yan, Haodong Zhang, Yanbo Zhu, Xiaotang Gan, Jinping Zhou
Aqueous zinc batteries (AZBs) have garnered significant attention for green energy storage due to their inherent advantages in high environmental compatibility and low cost. However, challenges such as uncontrollable Zn...
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Electrochemical reconstruction- and electronegativity-induced electron redistribution for activating sulfur atoms of MoOxSy-based materials toward efficient hydrogen evolution
Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC03386A, PaperXiao-Yu Yang, Rui-Yuan Li, Zhan Liu, Chunmu Guo, Xiaoyun Li, Cuifang Ye, Zhao Deng, Jia-Min Lyu, Ming-Hui Sun, Shen Yu, Yu Li, Yiyong Huang, Li-Hua Chen, Kai Liu, Bao-Lian Su, Yi-Long Wang
Amorphous MoOxSy compounds have attracted considerable attention in the field of hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) due to their unique structural advantages, which include the retention of high electrical conductivity of...
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DOI: 10.1039/D5GC03386A, PaperXiao-Yu Yang, Rui-Yuan Li, Zhan Liu, Chunmu Guo, Xiaoyun Li, Cuifang Ye, Zhao Deng, Jia-Min Lyu, Ming-Hui Sun, Shen Yu, Yu Li, Yiyong Huang, Li-Hua Chen, Kai Liu, Bao-Lian Su, Yi-Long Wang
Amorphous MoOxSy compounds have attracted considerable attention in the field of hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) due to their unique structural advantages, which include the retention of high electrical conductivity of...
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Coordination Regulation of Single-Atom Catalysts toward Enhanced Photocatalytic Ammonia Synthesis
Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC04101E, Tutorial ReviewRong Tang, Hu Guo, Wei Jiang, Jun Di
Photocatalytic ammonia synthesis is a sustainable pathway to substitute the Haber-Bosch reaction where high energy consumption exists, and single-atom catalysts (SACs) are pivotal materials in this field rely on their...
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DOI: 10.1039/D5GC04101E, Tutorial ReviewRong Tang, Hu Guo, Wei Jiang, Jun Di
Photocatalytic ammonia synthesis is a sustainable pathway to substitute the Haber-Bosch reaction where high energy consumption exists, and single-atom catalysts (SACs) are pivotal materials in this field rely on their...
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Metal-free electrohalogenation of olefins with aqueous NaX mediators
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC04102C, CommunicationZhe Zhang, Quanjin Rong, Shengkang Qian, Jianyou Zhao, Chengling Deng, Jiaoyang Liu, Fan Wang, Shuai Liu, Zhong-Quan Liu
We have developed a practical and diverse chlorination of alkenes via metal-free electrochemistry. By simply tuning the substitution pattern of the alkene, selective access to vicinal dichlorides, monochlorides, or allylic chlorides can be achieved.
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SiC Nanowires Supported Pd for Efficient Flow Hydrogenation of Nitroarenes to Arylamines
Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC03554F, PaperAichun You, weixian Lian, Xian liang Fu, Yuge Fan, Jinni Shen, Xuan Zhao, Li Zhu, Fan Tian, Man Xu
A highly efficient continuous-flow catalytic system for the ambient hydrogenation of nitroarenes to arylamines has been developed using a 1 wt.% Pd catalyst supported on robust, chemically stable SiC nanowires...
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DOI: 10.1039/D5GC03554F, PaperAichun You, weixian Lian, Xian liang Fu, Yuge Fan, Jinni Shen, Xuan Zhao, Li Zhu, Fan Tian, Man Xu
A highly efficient continuous-flow catalytic system for the ambient hydrogenation of nitroarenes to arylamines has been developed using a 1 wt.% Pd catalyst supported on robust, chemically stable SiC nanowires...
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Oxidation-CO2 leaching of spent LiFePO4 for lithium extraction and impurity control
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC03328D, PaperZhiming Yan, You Wu, Zepeng Lv, Shiying Qin, Mingrui Yang, Anwar Sattar, Zushu Li
The proposed process for recycling end-of-life LFP.
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One-pot three-component metal-free catalytic sustainable synthesis of pyrrole from biomass-derived amino alcohols
Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC02784E, PaperSihan Zhao, Mei-tian Fu, Lu Yin, Zhou Zhang, Minglong Yuan, Chao Huang
This paper describes a method for the efficient and sustainable synthesis of renewable pyrroles from biomass-derived amino alcohols under metal-free catalytic conditions without the requiring additional solvents. The method is...
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DOI: 10.1039/D5GC02784E, PaperSihan Zhao, Mei-tian Fu, Lu Yin, Zhou Zhang, Minglong Yuan, Chao Huang
This paper describes a method for the efficient and sustainable synthesis of renewable pyrroles from biomass-derived amino alcohols under metal-free catalytic conditions without the requiring additional solvents. The method is...
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Delamination and deinking of colored multilayer flexible plastic packaging via selective aminolysis of polyurethane and acrylate based adhesives
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC02667A, Paper


This study demonstrates selective adhesive aminolysis enabling delamination and deinking of multilayer packaging without compromising the integrity of the primary polymer substrates.
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Scalable synthesis of 2,5-diformylfuran in single-phase continuous flow and segmented flow
Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC03392F, PaperMin Jeong Kang, Yea Seul Jang, Chan Pil Park
A homogeneous catalytic reaction (NaBr/H₂SO₄) was performed in single-phase continuous flow and segmented flow modes to synthesize 2,5-diformylfuran (DFF), a versatile platform molecule for bio-based polymers, organic conductors, and pharmaceutical...
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DOI: 10.1039/D5GC03392F, PaperMin Jeong Kang, Yea Seul Jang, Chan Pil Park
A homogeneous catalytic reaction (NaBr/H₂SO₄) was performed in single-phase continuous flow and segmented flow modes to synthesize 2,5-diformylfuran (DFF), a versatile platform molecule for bio-based polymers, organic conductors, and pharmaceutical...
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Chemoselective Minisci Alkylation in Aqueous Medium: A General Strategy for Functionalization of Complex N-Heteroarenes and Biomolecules
Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC04621A, PaperQi-Long Hu, Jun-Jie Deng, Jia Ye, Jian Li, Albert S. C. Chan, Hang Su, Xiao-Feng Xiong
Efficiently constructing highly functionalized N-heteroarenes under mild reaction conditions is one of the most important approaches to facilitate the discovery of bioactive molecules. In this context, boronic ester derivatives as...
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DOI: 10.1039/D5GC04621A, PaperQi-Long Hu, Jun-Jie Deng, Jia Ye, Jian Li, Albert S. C. Chan, Hang Su, Xiao-Feng Xiong
Efficiently constructing highly functionalized N-heteroarenes under mild reaction conditions is one of the most important approaches to facilitate the discovery of bioactive molecules. In this context, boronic ester derivatives as...
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Expanding and recycling a water-resistant bioderived rigid foam using CO2-responsive amines and carbonated water
DOI: 10.1039/D4GC06165A, Paper


By combining renewable resources with CO2-responsive functionalities, a sustainable foam packaging material was developed. This bioderived foam can be recycled by dissolving it into carbonated water and expanding it into a new foam product.
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From lignin to market: a technical and economic perspective of reductive depolymerization approaches
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC02316E, Critical Review


The industrial potential of pilot-scale reductive depolymerization approaches is critically assessed from a technical, techno-economic, and application point of view.
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All-climate all-solid-state batteries enabled by high-entropy amorphous oxyhalide solid electrolytes
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC03551A, PaperShufeng Song, Wei Xue, Yumei Wang, Zhongting Wang, Yanming Cui, Zhixu Long, Hongyang Shan, Ning Hu, Jingfeng Wang, Fusheng Pan
A high-entropy mixed-ion strategy overcomes ASSBs’ temperature limits. The engineered high-entropy amorphous oxyhalide achieves high ionic conductivity (7.1 mS cm−1) and enhanced electrochemical stability, enabling all-climate ASSBs.
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A bifunctional recyclable Gemini surfactant catalyst for oxidative nitroso Diels–Alder reactions in water
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC03912F, PaperLongxia Jia, Hongling Liu, Weiwei Shi, Yingru Xu, Ruihan Sun, Jia Zuo, Bin Wang, Jianjian Huang, Fangrui Zhong, Dangui Wang
A novel bifunctional cationic Gemini iodide catalyst was developed, enabling micelle-catalyzed oxidative nitroso Diels–Alder reactions in aqueous media.
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Revealing the roles of light and heat for enhanced interfacial charge transfer in photocatalytic conversion of methanol to formaldehyde coupled with hydrogen evolution
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC03911H, PaperHoukui Xiang, Wanqi Liu, Zhaokai Zeng, Jingxian Chen, Beile Lin, Guoliang Zhang, Xuhui Wei, Songbo Zhou, Tongqiang Xiong, Pengfei Li, Libing Qian
Photothermal catalytic methanol (CH3OH) dehydrogenation is a sustainable pathway for the co-production of hydrogen (H2) and formaldehyde (HCHO) under mild reaction conditions.
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Mechanochemical-assisted carbothermal reduction for recycling spent lithium-ion batteries: a green and economical recycling strategy
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC03877D, PaperWeixin Li, Pengwei Li, Bai Song, Peng Yue, Yinyi Gao, Dianxue Cao, Kai Zhu
Ball milling spent cathode materials with graphite and H2O2 can reduce the temperature of the carbothermal reduction reaction and decrease graphite consumption, making it highly environmentally friendly.
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Sulphur-doped graphene quantum dot electrolyte additives for enhanced cycling stability of aqueous zinc-ion batteries
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC02211H, PaperJuanyun Li, Bin Wang, Zaohong Zhang, Peng Xie, Yanming Huang, Chengjie Xin, Ding Chen
Sulfur-doped graphene quantum dots with abundant functional groups were synthesized and their incorporation as electrolyte additives disrupts conventional solvated structures, enabling excellent electrochemical performance in assembled batteries.
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Synergistic recycling of polycarbonate: efficient BPA recovery integrated with CO2 utilization to produce valuable chemicals
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC02387D, PaperYue Bai, Minghao Zhang, Siming Zhu, Zhuo Wang, Yu Liu, Jianxiu Hao, Huacong Zhou, Qingqing Mei
This work introduces a synergistic strategy that simultaneously converts PC and its hydrolysis by-product CO2 into high-value products (BPA and PDO), achieving full carbon utilization with no CO2 emissions.
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