Themed collection Green Chemistry 2017 Emerging Investigators

Green Chemistry Emerging Investigators 2017 themed issue.

Polysulfide polymers prepared from elemental sulfur have found increasing use in applications that benefit the environment.

Inspired by recent commercialisation of metal–organic frameworks, this review highlights challenges and recent advances in developing scalable and sustainable metal–organic synthesis.

In addition to high levels of activity and selectivity, promising heterogeneous catalysts must also possess sufficient levels of stability. This tutorial review covers the topic of heterogeneous catalyst deactivation during liquid phase operation.

Reversible production–separation systems can be prepared by varying the speciation of at least one of their components.

N-Heterocyclic compounds have been tested in the selective hydrogenation catalysed by small 1–3 nm sized Ru nanoparticles (NPs) embedded in various imidazolium based ionic liquids (ILs).

Data-mining of the carbon nanotube growth parameters informed strategies to reduce energy and resource consumption for chemical vapor deposition processes.

A novel amphiphilic dipyridinium peroxophosphotungstate ion pair achieved remarkable selectivity and recyclability towards epoxidation and oxidative cleavage of fatty acids and esters.

Bifunctional Sn- and Al-containing BEA zeolites, prepared by solid state incorporation, allow furanic ethers to be produced continuously at high (>80%) levels of selectivity.

The catalytic aqueous-phase amination of biogenic alcohols with solid catalysts is reported for future development of renewable amine value-added chains.

The electrochemical and biological activities are synergistically driven by the physicochemical properties of graphene oxide and reduced graphene oxide.

A small lignin library was used to study the relationship between the lignin structure and the aromatic product yields during acidolysis.

A facile and green synthesis gives hierarchically porous MnO_x/nitrogen-doped-carbon nanorods for excellent bifunctional oxygen catalysis.

Nearly all polymer resins used to manufacture critically important fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) composites are petroleum sourced.

A facile, solid-state mechanochemical method was developed for the synthesis of low molecular weight chitosan (LMWC) in one step from chitin and crude shrimp shell powders, in which chitin undergoes simultaneous deacetylation and depolymerisation in the presence of a base catalyst under mechanical milling.

During saccharification of water-soluble wood, a dual 2-MeTHF/water solvent system enables extraction of low molecular weight lignin fragments.

We have identified an example of a mechanochemically milled organic reaction where liquid-assisted grinding controls the selectivity, such a phenomenon has not been reported/observed before.