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Editorial Board Member, Rajender Varma has selected some outstanding research to share with you from Green Chemistry. Read them now for free until the end of August 2021!

Rajender S. Varma, (H-Index 114, listed among ‘Most Cited Researchers’ by Clarivate Analytics 2016, 2018, 2019 and 2020), was born in India (Ph.D., Delhi University 1976). After postdoctoral research at Robert Robinson Laboratories, Liverpool, U.K., he was faculty member at Baylor College of Medicine and Sam Houston State University prior to joining Sustainable Technology Division at U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 1999 with adjunct appointment at Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic. He has over 48 years of research experience in management of multidisciplinary technical programs and is extensively involved in sustainable aspects of chemistry that includes photocatalysis, synthesis, environmental sciences, and development of environmentally benign synthetic methods using alternate energy input using microwaves, ultrasound, mechanochemistry, etc.; efficient technologies for greener remediation of contaminants; and environmental sciences. Lately, he is focused on greener approaches to assembly of nanophotocatalysts and sustainable applications of magnetically retrievable nanophotocatalysts in benign media. He is a member of the editorial advisory board of several international journals and has published over 710 scientific papers and been awarded 17 U.S. Patents with 48,400 citations.

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Critical Review
Photochemical reduction of carbon dioxide to formic acid
Robin Cauwenbergh and Shoubhik Das
Green Chem., 2021, 23, 2553-2574. DOI: 10.1039/D0GC04040A

Paper
Sustainable, self-cleaning, transparent, and moisture/oxygen-barrier coating films for food packaging
Vu Thi Tuyet Thuy, Lam Tan Hao, Hyeonyeol Jeon, Jun Mo Koo, Jaeduk Park, Eun Seong Lee, Sung Yeon Hwang, Sejin Choi, Jeyoung Park and Dongyeop X. Oh
Green Chem., 2021, 23, 2658-2667. DOI: 10.1039/D0GC03647A

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The green platform molecule gamma-valerolactone – ecotoxicity, biodegradability, solvent properties, and potential applications
Florian Kerkel, Marta Markiewicz, Stefan Stolte, Eva Müller and Werner Kunz
Green Chem., 2021, 23, 2962-2976. DOI: 10.1039/D0GC04353B

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Determining factors for the nano-biocompatibility of cobalt oxide nanoparticles: proximal discrepancy in intrinsic atomic interactions at differential vicinage
Suresh K. Verma, Pritam Kumar Panda, Puja Kumari, Paritosh Patel, Aryashree Arunima, Ealisha Jha, Shaheen Husain, Ravi Prakash, Roland Hergenröder, Yogendra Kumar Mishra, Rajeev Ahuja, Rajender S. Varma and Mrutyunjay Suar
Green Chem., 2021, 23, 3439-3458. DOI: 10.1039/D1GC00571E

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Editorial Board Member, Keiichi Tomishige has selected some outstanding research to share with you from Green Chemistry. Read them now for free until the end of June 2021!

Keiichi Tomishige received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. from Graduate School of Science, Department of Chemistry, The University of Tokyo. During his Ph.D. course in 1994, he moved to Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo as a research associate. In 1998, he became a lecturer, and then he moved to Institute of Materials Science, University of Tsukuba as a lecturer in 2001. Since 2004 he has been an associate professor, Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba. Since 2010, he is a professor, School of Engineering, Tohoku University. His research interests are the development of heterogeneous catalysts for 1) production of biomass-derived chemicals, 2) direct synthesis of organic carbonates from CO2 and alcohols, 3) steam reforming of biomass tar.

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Air-stable and reusable nickel phosphide nanoparticle catalyst for the highly selective hydrogenation of d-glucose to d-sorbitol
Sho Yamaguchi, Shu Fujita, Kiyotaka Nakajima, Seiji Yamazoe, Jun Yamasaki, Tomoo Mizugaki and Takato Mitsudome
Green Chem., 2021, 23, 2010-2016. DOI: 10.1039/D0GC03301D

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Synthesis of 1,10-decanediol diacetate and 1-decanol acetate from furfural
Chen-Qiang Deng, Qin-Zhu Jiang, Jin Deng and Yao Fu
Green Chem., 2021, 23, 2169-2176. DOI: 10.1039/D1GC00227A

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Phytocat – a bio-derived Ni catalyst for rapid de-polymerization of polystyrene using a synergistic approach
Parul Johar, Elizabeth L. Rylott, C. Robert McElroy, Avtar S. Matharu and James H. Clark
Green Chem., 2021, 23, 808-814. DOI: 10.1039/D0GC03808C

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Greener production of dimethyl carbonate by the Power-to-Fuel concept: a comparative techno-economic analysis
Hong Huang, Remzi Can Samsun, Ralf Peters and Detlef Stolten
Green Chem., 2021, 23, 1734-1747. DOI: 10.1039/D0GC03865B

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Heterogeneous Ru/TiO2 for hydroaminomethylation of olefins: multicomponent synthesis of amines
Jinghua An, Zhuyan Gao, Yehong Wang, Zhixin Zhang, Jian Zhang and Feng Wang
Green Chem., 2021, Accepted Manuscript. DOI: 10.1039/D1GC00113B

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Direct synthesis of a high-density aviation fuel using a polycarbonate
Lulin Wang, Fengan Han, Guangyi Li, Min Zheng, Aiqin Wang, Xiaodong Wang, Tao Zhang, Yu Cong and Ning Li
Green Chem., 2021, Advance Article. DOI: 10.1039/D0GC03426F

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Waste-minimized synthesis of C2 functionalized quinolines exploiting iron-catalysed C–H activation
Francesco Ferlin, Agnese Zangarelli, Simone Lilli, Stefano Santoro and Luigi Vaccaro
Green Chem., 2021, Advance Article. DOI: 10.1039/D0GC03351K

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Direct dimethyl carbonate synthesis from CO2 and methanol catalyzed by CeO2 and assisted by 2-cyanopyridine: a cradle-to-gate greenhouse gas emission study
Hajime Ohno, Mahdi Ikhlayel, Masazumi Tamura, Kenji Nakao, Kimihito Suzuki, Kentaro Morita, Yuzuru Kato, Keiichi Tomishige and Yasuhiro Fukushima
Green Chem., 2021, Advance Article. DOI: 10.1039/D0GC03349A

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One-step lignocellulose depolymerization and saccharification to high sugar yield and less condensed isolated lgnin
Sunitha Sadula, Natalia Rodriguez Quiroz, Abhay Athaley, Elvis Osamudiamhen Ebikade, Marianthi Ierapetritou, Dionisios G. Vlachos and Basudeb Saha
Green Chem., 2021, Advance Article. DOI: 10.1039/D0GC04119J

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Direct Diels–Alder reactions of furfural derivatives with maleimides
Răzvan C. Cioc, Martin Lutz, Evgeny A. Pidko, Marc Crockatt, Jan C. van der Waal and Pieter C. A. Bruijnincx
Green Chem., 2021, Advance Article. DOI: 10.1039/D0GC03558K

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Associate Editor, Elsje Alessandra Quadrelli has selected some outstanding research to share with you from Green Chemistry. Read them now for free until the end of March 2021!

Alessandra is CNRS director of research in the “Surface organometallic chemistry” team of the C2P2 laboratory in Lyon (France). Her research in the C2P2 unit, under triple tutelage CNRS CPE and Université de Lyon 1, focuses on gaining molecular understanding of the interaction between organometallic precursors and solid surfaces, such as silica and more recently, metal organic frameworks and 2D supports, in route to heterogeneous catalysts and functional materials. As chairwoman of the Sustanability Chair of Chemical, Physics and Electronic Engineering School CPE Lyon, she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses and organizes the biyearly international conference “CO2 Forum” on large scale carbon dioxide utilisations”.

She has coauthored over 65 papers, among which 2 reviews, 2 book chapters and 3 patents and has edited 1 book. She serves as referee and evaluator in several French and European instances.

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Paper
Dehydra-decyclization of 2-methyltetrahydrofuran to pentadienes on boron-containing zeolites
Gaurav Kumar, Dongxia Liu, Dandan Xu, Limin Ren, Michael Tsapatsis and Paul J. Dauenhauer
Green Chem., 2020, 22, 4147-4160. DOI: 10.1039/D0GC00136H

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Application of multifunctional silylenes and siliranes as universal crosslinkers for metal-free curing of silicones
Fabian A. D. Herz, Matthias Nobis, Daniel Wendel, Philipp Pahl, Philipp J. Altmann, Jan Tillmann, Richard Weidner, Shigeyoshi Inoue and Bernhard Rieger
Green Chem., 2020, 22, 4489-4497. DOI: 10.1039/D0GC00272K

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Polyoxometalate-based metal–organic framework-derived bimetallic hybrid materials for upgraded electrochemical reduction of nitrogen
Xinming Wang, Zemin Feng, Boxin Xiao, Jingxiang Zhao, Huiyuan Ma, Yu Tian, Haijun Pang and Lichao Tan
Green Chem., 2020, 22, 6157-6169. DOI: 10.1039/D0GC01149E

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Continuous flow processing of bismuth-photocatalyzed atom transfer radical addition reactions using an oscillatory flow reactor
Pauline Bianchi, Jason D. Williams and C. Oliver Kappe
Green Chem., 2021, Advance Article. DOI: 10.1039/D0GC03070H

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Chemo- and Regioselective Hydroformylation of Alkenes with CO2/H2 over a Bifunctional Catalyst
Kaimin Hua, Xiaofang Liu, Baiyin Wei, Zilong Shao, Yuchao Deng, Liangshu Zhong, Hui Wang and Yuhan Sun
Green Chem., 2021, Accepted Manuscript. DOI: 10.1039/D0GC03913F

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Associate Editor, Buxing Han has selected some outstanding research to share with you from Green Chemistry. Read them now for free until the end of February 2021!

Professor Buxing Han received his Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 1988, and did postdoctoral research from 1989 to 1991 at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. He has been a professor at the Institute of Chemistry, CAS since 1993.

His research interests include physicochemical properties of green solvent systems and applications of green solvents in green chemistry, especially on transformation of CO2 and biomass into valuable chemicals and fuels. He has published more than 700 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals, such as Science, Nat. Commun., Sci. Adv., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Chem. Rev., Acc. Chem. Res. and the papers have been cited more than 28000 times. He has also published 40 patents.

He is Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World(TWAS), Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry, former Chairman of IUPAC Subcommittee on Green Chemistry, Titular Member of Division III, IUPAC.

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Highly effective capture and subsequent catalytic transformation of low-concentration CO2 by superbasic guanidines
Hui Zhou, Wei Chen, Ji-Hong Liu, Wen-Zhen Zhang and Xiao-Bing Lu
Green Chem., 2020, 22, 7832-7838. DOI: 10.1039/D0GC03009K

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Thiol-promoted catalytic synthesis of high-performance furan-containing lubricant base oils from biomass derived 2-alkylfurans and ketones
Sibao Liu, Rameswar Bhattacharjee, Sha Li, Andrew Danielson, Tobias Mazal, Basudeb Saha and Dionisios G. Vlachos
Green Chem., 2020, 22, 7896-7906. DOI: 10.1039/D0GC01897J

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Dipolar cycloadditions of HMF-based nitrones: stepwise and multicomponent reactions, stereochemical outcome and structural scope
Lianjie Wang, Charlie Verrier, Mohammed Ahmar and Yves Queneau
Green Chem., 2020, 22, 7907-7912. DOI: 10.1039/D0GC03004J

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Tuning the coordination number of Fe single atoms for the efficient reduction of CO2
Huihuang Chen, Xu Guo, Xiangdong Kong, Yulin Xing, Yan Liu, Bolong Yu, Qun-Xiang Li, Zhigang Geng, Rui Si and Jie Zeng
Green Chem., 2020, 22, 7529-7536. DOI: 10.1039/D0GC02689A

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p-Xylene from 2,5-dimethylfuran and acrylic acid using zeolite in a continuous flow system
Jose Alirio Mendoza Mesa, Francesco Brandi, Irina Shekova, Markus Antonietti and Majd Al-Naji
Green Chem., 2020, 22, 7398-7405. DOI: 10.1039/D0GC01517B

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“Barking” up the right tree: biorefinery from waste stream to cyclic carbonate with immobilization of CO2 for non-isocyanate polyurethanes
Heyu Chen, Prashant Chauhan and Ning Yan
Green Chem., 2020, 22, 6874-6888. DOI: 10.1039/D0GC02285C

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Editorial Board Member Helen Sneddon has selected some outstanding research to share with you from Green Chemistry. Read them now for free until the end of January 2021!

Helen F. Sneddon studied Natural Sciences at Christ’s College, Cambridge, and obtained her PhD from the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Professor Steven V. Ley. Following postdoctoral studies at the University of California, Irvine, with Professor Larry Overman, she joined GSK in Stevenage, UK in 2007. While at GSK, she has developed a particular interest in Green Chemistry as applied to the Pharmaceutical Industry, including solvent and reagent selection, metrics, and the development of more efficient transformations. She is currently on the editorial board of the journal Green Chemistry and on the editorial advisory board of the journal ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. She is an author of over 50 peer-reviewed publications, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and a visiting professor of Sustainable Chemistry at the University of Nottingham.

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Critical Review
Review of recent advances in the biodegradability of polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) bioplastics and their composites
Kjeld W. Meereboer, Manjusri Misra and Amar K. Mohanty
Green Chem., 2020, 22, 5519-5558. DOI: 10.1039/D0GC01647K

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Mechanochemical synthesis of Cu₂S bonded 2D-sulfonated organic polymers: continuous production of dimethyl carbonate (DMC) via preheating of reactants
Subodh Kumar, Manoj B. Gawande, Ivo Medřík, Martin Petr, Ondřej Tomanec, Vojtěch Kupka, Rajender S. Varma and Radek Zbořil
Green Chem., 2020, 22, 5619-5627. DOI: 10.1039/D0GC01030H

Paper
Mechanisms and modelling of phosphorus solid–liquid transformation during the hydrothermal processing of swine manure
Yaxin Deng, Tao Zhang, James Clark, Tejraj Aminabhavi, Andrea Kruse, Daniel C. W. Tsang, Brajendra K. Sharma, Fusuo Zhang and Hongqiang Ren
Green Chem., 2020, 22, 5628-5638. DOI: 10.1039/D0GC01281E

Paper
Life cycle energy use and greenhouse gas emissions of ammonia production from renewable resources and industrial by-products
Xinyu Liu, Amgad Elgowainy and Michael Wang
Green Chem., 2020, 22, 5751-5761. DOI: 10.1039/D0GC02301A

Paper
Optimization and sustainability assessment of a continuous flow Ru-catalyzed ester hydrogenation for an important precursor of a β2-adrenergic receptor agonist
Michael Prieschl, Jorge García-Lacuna, Rachel Munday, Kevin Leslie, Anne O’Kearney-McMullan, Christopher A. Hone and C. Oliver Kappe
Green Chem., 2020, 22, 5762-5770. DOI: 10.1039/D0GC02225J

Critical Review
Sustainable flow approaches to active pharmaceutical ingredients
Francesco Ferlin, Daniela Lanari and Luigi Vaccaro
Green Chem., 2020, 22, 5937-5955. DOI: 10.1039/D0GC02404J

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Environmentally responsible, safe, and chemoselective catalytic hydrogenation of olefins: ppm level Pd catalysis in recyclable water at room temperature
Balaram S. Takale, Ruchita R. Thakore, Eugene S. Gao, Fabrice Gallou and Bruce H. Lipshutz
Green Chem., 2020, 22, 6055-6061. DOI: 10.1039/D0GC02087G

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Board Chair Philip Jessop has selected some outstanding research to share with you from Green Chemistry. Read them now for free until the end of December 2020!

Dr. Philip Jessop, FRSC, is the Canada Research Chair of Green Chemistry at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada and the Technical Director of GreenCentre Canada. As a professor at the University of California-Davis (1996-2003) and since then at Queen’s, he has studied green solvents and the chemistry of CO2 and H2. He invented the concept of switchable solvents and has developed many other CO2-switchable materials. Distinctions include the Eni Award for New Frontiers for Hydrocarbons (2013), Fellowship in the Royal Society of Canada (2013), the Canadian Green Chemistry & Engineering Award (2012), and the NSERC Polanyi Award (2008). He has chaired three international conferences and helped create GreenCentre Canada, a National Centre of Excellence for the commercialization of green chemistry technologies.

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Paper
The effect of pH and hydrogen bond donor on the dissolution of metal oxides in deep eutectic solvents
Ioanna M. Pateli, Dana Thompson, Sahar S. M. Alabdullah, Andrew P. Abbott, Gawen R. T. Jenkin and Jennifer M. Hartley
Green Chem., 2020, 22, 5476-5486. DOI: 10.1039/D0GC02023K

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Design of a combined ionosolv-organosolv biomass fractionation process for biofuel production and high value-added lignin valorisation
Meng Chen, Francisco Malaret, Anton E. J. Firth, Pedro Verdía, Aida R. Abouelela, Yiyan Chen and Jason P. Hallett
Green Chem., 2020, 22, 5161-5178. DOI: 10.1039/D0GC01143F

Communication
Introducing the reversible chemistry of CO₂ with diols mediated by organic superbases into polycarbonate synthesis
Yang Chai, Qin Chen, Caijuan Huang, Qiang Zheng, Michael North and Haibo Xie
Green Chem., 2020, 22, 4871-4877. DOI: 10.1039/D0GC01197E

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Electrohydrodimerization of biomass-derived furfural generates a jet fuel precursor
Xiao Shang, Yang Yang and Yujie Sun
Green Chem., 2020, 22, 5395-5401. DOI: 10.1039/D0GC01720E

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Editorial Board Member Tao Zhang has selected some outstanding research to share with you from Green Chemistry. Read them now for free until the end of November 2020!

Professor Tao Zhang received his PhD in 1989 from Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). After one year in University of Birmingham as a post-doctoral fellow, he joined DICP again in 1990 where he was promoted to a full professor in 1995. He was the director-general of DICP from 2007 to 2016. His research interests are mainly focused on the catalytic conversion of biomass and single-atom catalysis. He has won many important awards, such as the National Invention Prize, Distinguished Award of CAS, Excellent Scientist Award of Chinese Catalysis Society, Zhou Guangzhao Award, and HLHL Prize. Prof Tao Zhang is the author or co-author of more than 400 peer-reviewed scientific publications and 110 patents. He was elected as an academician of Chinese academy of Sciences in 2013 and was appointed as the vice president of Chinese Academy of Sciences from 2016.

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Communication
Upgrading 1-butanol to unsaturated, carbonyl and aromatic compounds: a new synthesis approach to produce important organic building blocks
Jorge Mora Vargas, Luiz Henrique Tofaneli Morelato, Julieth Orduna Ortega, Mauricio Boscolo and Gustavo Metzker
Green Chem., 2020, 22, 2365-2369 . DOI: 10.1039/D0GC00254B

Communication
Conversion of furfural to tetrahydrofuran-derived secondary amines under mild conditions
Shi Jiang, Eric Muller, François Jerôme, Marc Pera-Titus and Karine De Oliveira Vigier
Green Chem., 2020, 22, 1832-1836. DOI: 10.1039/D0GC00119H

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Unlocking biomass energy: continuous high-yield production of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural in water
Puxiang Yan, Ming Xia, Shanshuai Chen, Wanying Han, Hongliang Wang and Wanbin Zhu
Green Chem., 2020, 22, 5274-5284. DOI: 10.1039/D0GC01446J

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Lignin-fueled photoelectrochemical platform for light-driven redox biotransformation
Ding Wang, Sahng Ha Lee, Seunghyun Han, Jinhyun Kim, Nguyen Vu Thien Trang, Kayoung Kim, Eun-Gyu Choi, Passarut Boonmongkolras, Yang Woo Lee, Byungha Shin, Yong Hwan Kim and Chan Beum Park
Green Chem., 2020, 22, 5151-5160. DOI: 10.1039/D0GC01521K

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