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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC01951F, PaperDan Liu, Heng Peng Zhang, Jia Cheng Qian, Yi Wang, Su Juan Ren, Ren Xiang Tan
This work presents enzymatic synthesis of four health-beneficial oligoindoles (DIM, LTr1, LTe2, and LTr3) using peroxidase. Green chemistry metrics and EcoScale score evaluations supported this method as a green protocol.
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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC90104A, Correction Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Hui Hu, Nannan Liu, Qinglong Ru, Wei Jiang, Yongcui Yang, Kailan Ma, Lixiang Meng, Zuliang Du, Bao Zhang, Gang Cheng
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC00624D, PaperCosimo Annese, Michele Casiello, Caterina Fusco, Antonio Monopoli, Lucia D'Accolti
Recently, choline-based ionic liquids (ILs), a class of biocompatible ILs, have been successfully employed in the pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass. Nevertheless, their potential as solvents alternative to the more popular...
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC00236B, Paper Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Amirmohammad Arjomand Kermani, Kyle Shank, Shang Zhai
Ammonia (NH3) is a promising hydrogen carrier due to high hydrogen density and established infrastructure. This study introduces a novel chemical looping process to produce H2 from NH3 and H2O....
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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC90093J, Editorial
We would like to take this opportunity to highlight the Outstanding Reviewers for Green Chemistry in 2024, as selected by the editorial team for their significant contribution to the journal.
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC01785H, PaperPing Zhang, Hao Zhu, Zhuoheng Tu, Xingbang Hu, You-Ting Wu
With the advantages of non-toxicity, biodegradability, renewability, excellent gas affinity and film-forming properties, chitosan (CS), a derivative of the natural biopolymer chitin, has been regarded as an environmentally friendly candidate...
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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC00904A, PaperRamin Abdullayev, Kabiruddin Khan, Gopala Krishna Jillella, Varun Gopalakrishnan Nair, Sk. Abdul Amin, Joyita Roy, Mahmoud Bousily, Agnieszka Gajewicz-Skretna
This study presents novel QSPR, q-RASPR, and SbSD models designed to predict metal bioaccumulation across a wide range of species and to identify the key molecular factors influencing this process.
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC01774B, Critical ReviewIrshad Ahmad, Gao Li, Marwan Abduljawad, Mohammed Qasem Alfaifi, Yousef Alrashed , Fahad M Albaqi
Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) have gained significant attention as photocatalysts due to their high crystallinity, tunable porosity, and exceptional optoelectronic properties, particularly their ability to absorb a broad range of...
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC02232K, Communication Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Vasiliki Valsamidou, Subrata Patra, Besa Kadriu, Michel Metzger, Ludovic Gremaud, Dmitry Katayev
The installation of a nitro group, essential for synthesizing valuable nitrated compounds, is traditionally associated with harsh reaction conditions, hazardous reagents, and significant environmental concerns. Recent advancements in sustainable nitration...
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC00787A, PaperXin Qu, Fangzhao Pang, Shiyu Wang, Xiang Chen, Xinyu Li, Fengyin Zhou, Danfeng Wang, Shuaibo Gao, Dihua Wang, Huayi Yin
Discharging spent lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) is crucial to eliminating potential safety issues and hazards for battery recycling but its contamination has been neglected. Herein, we invent an electrochemical resistor (ECR)...
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC01181G, Tutorial ReviewBingkun Chen, Qidong Hou, Richard Lee Smith, Xinhua Qi, Haixin Guo
Electrocatalytic conversion of biomass will become necessary for achieving sustainable production of many kinds of chemicals. In this review, conversion of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) into 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA) via electrochemical oxidation...
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC01092F, Paper Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Timon Torres Ruano, Martijn Diender, Diana Zita Sousa
The high cost of traditional substrates has hindered the large-scale adoption of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) as sustainable alternatives to petrochemical plastics. One-carbon (C1) substrates like carbon monoxide (CO) offer a low-cost,...
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC01164G, PaperYirui Chen, Yuqi Cheng, Wanting Tong, Hangtao Wu, Chuhan Zhao, Dingguo Song, Fei Ling, Weihui Zhong
Enantioselective oxidation reactions represent potent methodologies for creating chiral C-O bonds. Although extensive research and development have been studied on chiral homogeneous catalysts, the exploration of chiral heterogeneous catalysts remains...
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC02206A, CommunicationJincheng Zhang, Chengyong Xing, Shanna An, Fanshi Meng, Zhanning Liu, Ruixiang Ge, Min Ma, Jiali Ren, Jian Tian
It is both ecologic and economic benefit to convert infectant nitrate (NO3-) into valuable NH3 by electrochemical nitrate reduction (NO3RR) technology. Herein, a grain-assembled Cu2O-Cu nanowires/copper foam (Cu2O-Cu NWs/CF) electrode...
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC01282A, PaperDong Yan, Yuhao Ma, Hao Wang, Weishang Jia, Xiaobin Niu, Haibo Wang, Wei Zou, Liping Wang
Lithium metal batteries (LMBs) are promising for next-generation high-energy-density batteries but suffer from severe interface instability on reactive Li metal, resulting in poor cycling performance and resource inefficiency. In this...
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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
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, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4GC06571A, Paper Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Ilaria Quaratesi, Petre Chipurici, Vittoria Ferrara, Concepció Casas, Anna Bacardit, Noemi Proietti, Carmen Talotta, Carmine Gaeta, Veronica Iuliano, Immacolata Bruno, Antonio Pauciulo, Rocco Gliubizzi, Ioan Călinescu, Elena Badea
Ultrasonication-derived alginate optimizes collagen interaction in chrome-free leather retanning, enhancing biodegradability and reducing waste.
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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC00561B, PaperXiangyue Wei, Qiang Zhang, Chengfeng Shen, Pengbo Ye, Jiaying Xu, Xuehui Liu, Zhishan Su, Shimei Xu, Yu-Zhong Wang
Mixed plastic waste management has long been a major challenge owing to complex compositions of plastic wastes and high sorting costs.
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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC00274E, Paper Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Obida Bawadkji, Peng Tang, Christian Müller, Rainer Haag
We developed a solvent-free mechanochemical method to synthesize a BP–PG nanohybrid capable of selectively reducing Au3+ to stabilized gold nanoparticles, achieving a recovery capacity over three times its own weight
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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC00946D, Perspective Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Tycho Ehrhardt, Gadi Rothenberg
Green fairytales. We may not like it, but the reality is that green hydrogen is too expensive and its manufacturing on a large global scale in the 21st century is untenable.
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