Themed collection Green Solvents
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En route to full implementation: driving the green chemistry agenda in the pharmaceutical industry
Focus on the outlook for a green future in the pharmaceutical industry – close-up of historical drivers, blockers, challenges, and changes.
Green Chem., 2013,15, 3105-3115
https://doi.org/10.1039/C3GC41629A
Green chemistry and the ocean-based biorefinery
Competition for land use could be minimized if marine sourced feedstocks were used for chemicals and materials production rather than crops grown on fertile land.
Green Chem., 2013,15, 860-871
https://doi.org/10.1039/C3GC36994C
Direct aerobic oxidation of 2-benzylpyridines in a gas–liquid continuous-flow regime using propylene carbonate as a solvent
The use of continuous flow technology enables a fast and efficient oxidation of 2-benzylpyridines in propylene carbonate using compressed air as an oxidant.
Green Chem., 2013,15, 320-324
https://doi.org/10.1039/C2GC36896J
Ruthenium(II)-catalyzed selective monoarylation in water and sequential functionalisations of C–H bonds
The selective monoarylation of arene C–H bonds, with arylchlorides and heteroarylhalides, is efficiently performed using a RuCl2(PPh3)(p-cymene) catalyst operating in water and it is followed by a different (hetero)arylation with a Ru(OAc)2(p-cymene) catalyst in water to produce mixed bifunctional derivatives.
Green Chem., 2013,15, 67-71
https://doi.org/10.1039/C2GC36222H
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Reactions of p-coumaryl alcohol model compounds with dimethyl carbonate. Towards the upgrading of lignin building blocks
Models of lignin building blocks can be converted catalytically into different products with tuneable selectivity by using dimethylcarbonate.
Green Chem., 2013,15, 3195-3204
https://doi.org/10.1039/C3GC40334C
Cycloaddition of CO2 to epoxides catalyzed by imidazolium-based polymeric ionic liquids
A cross-linked ionic polymer derived from a styrene-functionalized imidazolium ionic liquid displays high efficiency and reusability as a heterogeneous catalyst for the cycloaddition of CO2 to epoxides.
Green Chem., 2013,15, 1584-1589
https://doi.org/10.1039/C3GC37085B
Recycling Pd colloidal catalysts using polymeric phosphine ligands and polyethylene as a solvent
Polyisobutylene (PIB)-bound azo dyes were prepared from aryl amine terminated polyisobutylene oligomers and used to form palladacycle precatalysts that can be used for catalytic carbon–carbon cross coupling reactions.
Green Chem., 2013,15, 1361-1367
https://doi.org/10.1039/C3GC36932C
Facile insertion of CO2 into metal–phenoxide bonds
The insertion of CO2 into cobalt– and zinc–phenoxide bonds was found to occur rapidly suggesting it to be a facile key-step in the copolymerisation of carbon dioxide with epoxides.
Green Chem., 2013,15, 1356-1360
https://doi.org/10.1039/C3GC40147B
Production of polyetheretherketone in ionic liquid media
Polyetheretherketones were synthesised in the ionic liquid 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium bis{(trifluoromethyl)sulfonyl}amide and recovered with high separation efficiency.
Green Chem., 2013,15, 1166-1172
https://doi.org/10.1039/C3GC36754A
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Methylation using dimethylcarbonate catalysed by ionic liquids under continuous flow conditions
Efficient, continuous flow methylation was effected with dimethylcarbonate using a basic ionic liquid as catalyst.
Green Chem., 2012,14, 3071-3076
https://doi.org/10.1039/C2GC36226K
A clean enzymatic process for producing flavour esters by direct esterification in switchable ionic liquid /solid phases
By using an iterative cooling/centrifugation protocol, a clean biocatalytic approach for producing flavour esters in switchable ionic liquid/solid phases has been developed.
Green Chem., 2012,14, 3026-3033
https://doi.org/10.1039/C2GC36081K
Ruthenium nanoparticle catalysts stabilized in phosphonium and imidazolium ionic liquids : dependence of catalyst stability and activity on the ionicity of the ionic liquid
The catalytic activity and stability of phosphonium and imidazolium IL-stabilized Ru NPs depends on the ionicity of the IL.
Green Chem., 2012,14, 1736-1742
https://doi.org/10.1039/C2GC35241A
About this collection
This web collection contains contributions from the biennial "Green Solvents" conference, held in Boppard, Germany in October 2012. Read Green Chemistry Chair Professor Walter Leitner's introduction to this web collection on the blog