Themed collection 2025 Green Chemistry Reviews

An indirect hotspot is a process step that may cause little harm on its own but has a strong influence on a very harmful tstep (the direct hotspot) and thereby the total harm of the process.

Co-production of lime and soda ash through the anion exchange process is economically sustainable and can immediately reduce global CO₂ emissions by 37 Mt.

Molecular magnetism and computational chemistry examples of frugal modelling as a tool to prioritize energy-efficient algorithms to minimize resource intensive operations.

Physical, chemical, and biological methods can prepare core-shell structured LMNPs. The cube in the figure symbolizes their diverse biomedical applications, with its height indicating the breadth of these applications.

This review aims to gain an in-depth understanding of the specific mechanisms underlying the magnetic field effect, and amplifying the advantages of magnetic-field-assisted photocatalytic technology in elevating the CO₂ reduction efficiency.

This review focuses on advances in bioplastics built on a D-xylose core, and points the way for their current challenges and future opportunities.

The integration of nanostructured catalytic cavitation agents, microfluidic solutions, and computational molecular modelling forms a trilateral synergistic platform that unlocks new potential of sonocatalysis in green and sustainable chemistry.

Hydrogen spillover, involving active H species migration between high- and weak-affinity sites, gains attention for its unique mechanism and accelerated kinetics.

The research about photocatalytic, electrocatalytic, and thermocatalytic CO₂ reduction, with single-atom catalysts (SACs).

SWOT analysis of MOFs through the lens of safe and sustainable by design (SSbD) framework, highlighting their potential, challenges, and future directions (Prepared using Biorender Software).

Chitin is a sustainable source of naturally-fixed nitrogen. This review explores advances in converting chitin into nitrogen-containing compounds, emphasizing progress in synthesizing benzenoid aromatics and highlighting future prospects.

Waste polyolefins are efficiently upgraded into value-added products through hydrocracking, hydrolysis and tandem catalytic processes with non-noble metal catalysts.

We highlight the advancements toward electrophotochemical ligand-to-metal charge transfer (LMCT) catalysis, which has contributed to advancing sustainable radical chemistry by exploiting both visible light and electricity as clean energy inputs.

Humins are side-products derived from the acid-catalysed conversion of carbohydrate-containing biomass, including sugars (e.g. glucose, fructose, sucrose), oligo-, polysaccharides, and lignocellulosic feedstocks into HMF, furfural and levulinic acid.

Green amine synthesis is assessed using the CHEM21 green metrics toolkit, offering a step-by-step guide for sustainability evaluation and promoting environmentally conscious transformations.

The materials, preparation methods, properties, and applications of biodegradable microbeads in personal care products and cosmetics.

The based ex-ante techno-environmental-economic assessment based on process simulation can predict the performance based on the exiting laboratory- or pilot-scale experiment results and provide multidimensional quantified guidance.

This paper summarizes the recent advances in the biosynthesis of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) from organic waste-derived volatile fatty acids (VFAs).

This feature article provides a comprehensive summary of the valorization of substances in the chemical recycling of polyvinyl chloride.

This review compares biohydrogen and biomethane production via photo-fermentation, emphasizing their complementary roles as sustainable bioenergy sources.

Production of 3-acetamido-5-acetylfuran from renewable chitin resources.

A review examining recent advances in liquid hot water pretreatment science to propel future studies is presented.

The potential of hydrophobic type V DESs for the liquid–liquid separation of metal ions is reviewed along with the properties relevant to their application and their potential advantages and limitations compared to conventional solvent extraction.

Green solvents enhance the sustainability of hydroformylation and other carbonylation reactions by reducing environmental impact, improving safety, and enabling more efficient, eco-friendly catalytic processes.

Emerging technologies-empowered thermochemical plastic valorization is developed for value-added products in green and practical manner, which are beneficial to achieving circular plastic economy and several UN sustainable development goals.

This review provides a comprehensive summary of the recycling of postconsumer polyethylene waste, including various mechanical and chemical recycling processes, while highlighting their advantages and future development prospects.

Cutting-edge technologies for the biological valorization of lignin.

This review analyzes biphasic fractionation of lignocellulose using statistical analysis and DFT simulations, focusing on enzymatic hydrolysis, phase roles, solvent-catalyst impacts, and biphasic system sustainability with its industrial potential.

The synergistic interaction between acid and metal sites in the hydrodeoxygenation of biocrude oil model compounds.

This article presents a novel strategy for co-pyrolyzing biomass and plastic waste to produce advanced carbon materials. It systematically evaluates the reaction mechanisms, process dynamics, environmental benefits, and sustainable materials.

Biomass (biowaste) can be converted into humic acid via hydrothermal humification under specific conditions, demonstrating significant application potential in agriculture, environmental management and materials science.