Themed collection 2024 Green Chemistry Reviews

This perspective provides the design, stability and unique properties regarding ionic liquid-stabilized metal oxoclusters and their application in catalysis, and also illustrates the future development of ionic liquid-stabilized metal oxoclusters.

This perspective showcases recent advances in amino acid synthesis from biomass through the chemocatalytic method.

To meet EU CO₂ emission targets, we need to replace most fossil-derived plastics with renewable alternatives. To stop endless pollution by accumulating non degradable plastics we need future plastics to be closed-loop recyclable and/or biodegradable.

Upcycling silicon from waste solar panels into Li-ion batteries as anodes is a potential solution to handle the ever-growing solar waste.

This manuscript provides basic knowledge regarding nitrogen-doped carbon materials and its application in the oxidation of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF), and discusses the future development of nitrogen-doped carbon materials.

The Green Chemistry Commitment (GCC) was founded in 2013 to host a community of practice around green chemistry in higher education. 10 years later, the GCC empowers a worldwide community to use chemistry tools to create a sustainable planet.

This perspective highlights recent advances and provides an outlook on future developments in the first-row transition metal catalysed enantioconvergent radical Suzuki–Miyaura C(sp³)−C coupling of racemic alkyl halides.

Some of the latest technological developments involving chemistry in water are discussed.

BDSCCs, known as efficient solid acid catalysts with easy preparation and a green source, are anticipated to play a role in advancing circular and economic development in various sectors.

Vital aspects to consider when implementing green analytical chemistry in mass spectrometry.

This article reviews recent advancements in AOR catalysts, emphasizing mechanistic studies through in situ characterization and DFT calculations to unravel the structure-performance correlation.

This review presents the research progress in the stabilization of Zn anodes using various solvents, including alcohols, amines, acetonitrile, lipids, ethers, and dimethyl sulfoxide.

In this review, many strategies, such as improving metal dispersion, strengthening metal–support interaction, increasing CO₂ adsorption and activation, promoting oxygen release/storage capacity, were proposed to improve catalytic performance of DRM.

This tutorial review provides a comprehensive and authoritative summary on the exciting research activities in the fields of poly(ionic liquid)s (PILs), covering their synthesis and their applications in a number of areas.

Electrode modification of VRFB with “3Es”.

The conversion of lignocellulose biomass to furfural can be performed using one-step and two-step strategies. A techno-economic analysis plays a crucial role in evaluating the overall economic feasibility of industrial-scale furfural production.

This article reviews different types of covalent porous catalysts for eCO2RR, including their design principles, the latest progress and their structure–activity relationships reported in recent literature.

Different strategies of mass transfer enhancement in a Pt-based cathode catalyst layer for PEM fuel cells.

The formation of strain, the effect of strain on CO₂ reduction reactions, and the recent advances in strain engineering for CO₂ reduction reactions have been systemically reviewed.

This article provides a comprehensive overview of the current scientific status of monomer and polymer synthesis, as well as the areas of application for (meth)acrylates based on monoterpenes, using the industrially available IBOMA as an example.

This work provides a review of green approaches for producing drug delivery systems (DDSs) to identify the challenges in effectively retaining and further releasing low molecular weight molecules from all-aqueous matrices.

Seaweed biomass is gaining industrial and economic momentum as a renewable feedstock for high-value products, including nutraceuticals, value-added chemicals and bioplastics.

This article highlighted the recent demand for sustainable and resource efficient drug synthesis using electrochemical strategies.

Strategies for avoiding scaling relations of ammonia synthesis on the transition metal catalysts are reviewed. The green plasma ammonia processes on N₂ and H₂/H₂O are emphasized.

The application of photocatalyzed Minisci-type reactions in LSF accelerates the discovery of drug candidates in a green way.

Deep eutectic solvents (DESs) enable many processes to be environmentally friendly. This Tutorial Review aims to showcase the roles of DESs in the synthesis of functional materials from a green chemistry perspective.

This review concludes the recent advance of nature-inspired hair dyes including categories and preparation, emphasizing the interaction between pigment and hair. The pigmentation mechanisms and color-tuning strategies are also elaborated.

Fully hydrated! – Iron photocatalysis tests the waters.

Ionic liquids as additives in nanoparticles influence their morphology and enhance their bioactivity, highlighting their key role in sustainable chemistry, a major environmental advance.

This review comprehensively describes the recent advancements in the design and preparation of Pickering emulsions and systematically highlights their green catalysis applications using as-fabricated nano/microreactors.

This work summarizes a review on the selective oxidation of glycerol via photocatalysis/photoelectrocatalysis. We elucidate the unique reaction pathways induced by photo-generated reactive species from a green chemistry point of view.

Hypercrosslinked polymers and the resultant carbon materials are promising platforms for CO₂ capture and conversion, because of their high specific surface areas, and modifiable and accessible surface functionalities.

Recent advances in electroreductive upgradation of biomass to high-value chemicals and energy-intensive biofuels via various transformation routes are showcased.

Organocatalytic enantioselective cross-dehydrogenative coupling reaction provides a great opportunity for the synthesis of highly enantioenriched molecules. In this review, recent progress in this field is summarized.

Aerobic oxidative cyanation of diverse oxygen-containing compounds over thermo- and photocatalysts is highlighted as a green and promising avenue for nitrile synthesis.

Hydrotropic solvents are a promising solvent in biomass processing due to their unique amphiphilic structure. This review summarizes recent advances in hydrotropic solvent systems with their chemical structure, amphiphilicity, roles, and mechanism.

Polyurethanes (PUs) represent a family of useful synthetic polymers (thermoplastic or thermosetting) obtained from diisocyanates and diols/polyols via polycondensation reactions.

By harnessing the reactivity of alkynes and alkenes under photochemical conditions, novel pathways have been unlocked to construct N-heterocyclic compounds, allowing for more efficient and sustainable synthesis.

Thermoplastic starch (TPS) has acquired considerable attention and many efforts have been devoted to its application in many areas, such as food packaging, waterborne coatings, gas barriers, and energy storage and generation.

With the consequent retirement of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), there has been an upsurge in spent LIBs, posing significant challenges to energy, resources, and the environment, which has led to the necessity to recycle spent LIBs.

Lignocellulosic-derived biorefineries present an environmentally friendly avenue for generating biofuels and bioproducts, curbing emissions, and advancing environmental stewardship.

The Tutorial review critically considers the application of materials bearing boronate groups for separation and recovery of saccharides and polyols via affinity adsorption processes.

In this review, the recent developments in the electrocatalytic conversion of methane under ambient conditions, with focus on metal oxide catalysts, are examined. The commonly employed strategies are systematically reviewed.

This review addressed the recent advances of biocompatible ionic liquids that include the production of renewable commodities and approaches in catalysis and the pharmaceutical field. Likewise, patents and future perspectives are discussed.

Montmorillonite is widely applied in the field of electrochemical energy storage mainly due to its low cost, inherent high ionic conductivity, tuneable 2D layered structure, and abundant chemisorption active sites.

MASE is well suited for use in the nature-aided drug discovery, but the OFAT approach risks limiting the advantages offered by the technique. The way to make it truly green is to couple MASE with DoE, although this coupling is still limited.

This work aims to review the latest progress in chemocatalytic production of sorbitol from cellulose with emphasis on sustainable chemistry.

Organosolv process: from biomass to sustainable products.

There is an urgent need for the development of sustainable transformation of today's membrane distillation approaches into a greener way.

Bio-based and petroleum-based biodegradable coatings: materials, methods, and modifications to improve the performance of polymeric substrates for plastic and paper-based food packaging applications.

Strategies for building efficient electrocatalytic urea synthesis systems.

Sunlight-driven photocatalytic conversion of furfural and its derivatives enables activation and transformation of the target chemical bonds under very mild conditions using photoexcited charge carriers or photogenerated reactive species.

A critical overview is provided, on use of green monomers and solvents for fabrication of selective thin-films via interfacial polymerization used inseparation processes.

Bio-upcycling of monomers recovered from poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) waste is a novel alternative to turn recycling process more economically attractive by obtaining several products with higher added value.

An overview on lignin modification and applications possibilities is provided. Importantly, a quantitative comparison of all discussed literature procedures in terms of sustainability is included.

We reviewed the current oil-based and novel renewables pathways for the chemical synthesis of methionine and its hydroxy analogues. Their sustainability advantages and disadvantages were critically assessed.

Given the high toxicity of inorganic inhibitors, organic substances, primarily heterocycles, have been proven to be one of the most efficient, cost-effective, and practical alternatives.

Recovering noble metals from secondary resources to establish an efficient, environmentally friendly noble metals recovery system.

The global plasticizer market is projected to increase from $17 billion in 2022 to $22.5 billion in 2027.

This review summarises the thermo-catalytic processes converting chitin from shell waste into diverse chemicals and reviews the advances, catalytic systems, and associated challenges.

This review focuses on the use of ionic liquids (ILs) in green synthesis of 1,2,3-triazoles which critically screened, and summarized in two sections i.e., from alkynes and substrates other than alkynes using ILs as solvent, as catalyst and as both.

Survey and comparison of homogeneous and heterogeneous catalytic processes for acceptorless dehydrogenation of glycerol and ethanol based on green metrics.

This review gives a broad overview of the conversion of biomass-derived levulinic acid (LA) and furfural into valuable 1,4-pentanediol (1,4-PDO), which is a degradable polyester monomer.

Production of value-added chemicals from renewable feedstocks is an attractive platform to alleviate the shortage of petroleum resources and to minimize CO₂ emissions.