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Here are the latest HOT papers published in Green Chemistry, as recommended by the referees:

Large-ring lactones from plant oils
Timo Witt and Stefan Mecking  
Green Chem., 2013, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C3GC40905H

Zebrafish assays as developmental toxicity indicators in the green design of TAML oxidation catalysts
Lisa Truong, Matthew A. DeNardo, Soumen Kundu, Terrence J. Collins and Robert L. Tanguay  
Green Chem., 2013, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C3GC40376A

SnTUD-1: a solid acid catalyst for three component coupling reactions at room temperature
Muthusamy Poomalai Pachamuthu, Kannan Shanthi, Rafael Luque and Anand Ramanathan  
Green Chem., 2013,15, 2158-2166, DOI: 10.1039/C3GC40792F

Carboxylation of terminal alkynes at ambient CO2 pressure in ethylene carbonate
Bing Yu, Zhen-Feng Diao, Chun-Xiang Guo, Chun-Lai Zhong, Liang-Nian He, Ya-Nan Zhao, Qing-Wen Song, An-Hua Liu and Jin-Quan Wang  
Green Chem., 2013, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C3GC40896E

All the papers listed above are free to access for the next 4 weeks!

Issue 8 of Green Chemistry is now available to read online.

The front cover this month (pictured left) features work by Rafael Luque and co-workers from Cordoba, Spain. In their work, they report a proof of concept of laser-assisted heterogeneously catalysed processes at room temperature using silica supported gold nanoparticles.

Read the full article: Laser-driven heterogeneous catalysis: efficient amide formation catalysed by Au/SiO2 systems
Antonio Pineda, Leyre Gomez, Alina M. Balu, Victor Sebastian, Manuel Ojeda, Manuel Arruebo, Antonio A. Romero, Jesus Santamaria and Rafael Luque 
Green Chem., 2013, 15, 2043-2049, DOI: 10.1039/C3GC40166A

The inside front cover this month (pictured left) features work by Avelino Corma and co-workers from Valencia, Spain. In their work, they show optically pure chiral γ-lactone (S)-γ-hydroxymethyl-α,β-butenolide, which is a highly-valuable chemical, being achieved in good yields by the oxidation of levoglucosenone with H₂O₂ and transition metal-containing zeolites.

Read the full article: Metal-containing zeolites as efficient catalysts for the transformation of highly valuable chiral biomass-derived products
Cecilia Paris, Manuel Moliner and Avelino Corma  
Green Chem., 2013, 15, 2101-2109, DOI: 10.1039/C3GC40267C

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Here are some more HOT papers published in Green Chemistry, as recommended by the referees:

A waste-minimized protocol for the preparation of 1,2-azido alcohols and 1,2-amino alcohols, Eleonora Ballerini, Paolo Crotti, Ileana Frau, Daniela Lanari, Ferdinando Pizzoa and Luigi Vaccaro, Green Chem., 2013, DOI: 10.1039/c3gc40988k

Palladium on iron oxide nanoparticles: the morphological effect of the support in glycerol hydrogenolysis, Junwei Ge, Ziyan Zeng, Fenglin Liao, Weiran Zheng, Xinlin Hong and Shik Chi Edman Tsang, Green Chem., 2013, DOI: 10.1039/c3gc40712h

One-by-one hydrogenation, cross-coupling reaction, and Knoevenagel condensations catalyzed by PdCl₂ and the downstream palladium residue, Hu Wang, Li Li, Xing-Feng Bai, Wen-Hui Deng, Zhan-Jiang Zheng, Ke-Fang Yang and Li-Wen Xu, Green Chem., 2013, DOI: 10.1039/c3gc40991k

These three papers have been made free to access for the next 4 weeks!

Here are the latest HOT papers published in Green Chemistry, as recommended by the referees: 

In situ coating of diatom frustules with silver nanoparticles
Jeremiah Toster, Qin Lin Zhou, Nicole M. Smith, K. Swaminathan Iyer, Federico Rosei and Colin L. Raston 
Green Chem., 2013, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C3GC40660A 

A prototype device for evaporation in batch and flow chemical processes 
Benjamin J. Deadman, Claudio Battilocchio, Eric Sliwinski and Steven V. Ley  
Green Chem., 2013, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C3GC40967H 

High yield aldose–ketose transformation for isolation and facile conversion of biomass sugar to furan
Bin Li, Sasidhar Varanasi and Patricia Relue  
Green Chem., 2013, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C3GC40795K 

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Scientists in Poland and the US have reformulated the herbicide dicamba to reduce its environmental impact.

The use of chemicals in agriculture is widespread, however, there are increasing concerns about their other environmental effects. Dicamba, used to control broadleaf weeds in grain fields and grasslands, is known to enter the environment via water runoff and evaporation following its application.

In an attempt to reduce its volatility, a team led by Robin Rogers, from the University of Alabama, and Juliusz Pernak, from Poznan University of Technology, has formulated dicamba as an ionic liquid…

Read the full article in Chemistry World»

Read the original journal article in Green Chemistry:
Ionic liquid forms of the herbicide dicamba with increased efficacy and reduced volatility
O. Andreea Cojocaru, Julia L. Shamshina, Gabriela Gurau, Anna Syguda, Tadeusz Praczyk, Juliusz Pernak and Robin D. Rogers
Green Chem., 2013, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3GC37143C

Iron usually rusts in the presence of water, however, the protective polymers developed by Yasuhiro Uozumi and Audrey Moores prevent the rusting process, allowing iron to act as an efficient and selective catalyst for hydrogenation with water as the solvent © Shutterstock

An international team of chemists has reported a clean and green way to perform one of the most important industrial reactions for pharmaceutical and petrochemical synthesis.

Platinum group metals are currently the catalysts of choice for hydrogenations due to their high activity. However, they are also expensive, toxic and very rare. Now, in a joint project between McGill University, Canada, and the RIKEN Institute, Japan, a polymer supported iron catalyst has demonstrated excellent performance as a hydrogenation catalyst in the most environmentally-friendly of reaction mediums – water.

Read what Audrey Moores and Jianliang Xiao had to say about the research in the Chemistry World story!

Read the original research published in Green Chemistry:

Highly efficient iron(0) nanoparticle-catalyzed hydrogenation in water in flow, Reuben Hudson, Go Hamasaka, Takao Osako, Yoichi M. A. Yamada, Chao-Jun Li, Yasuhiro Uozumi and Audrey Moores, Green Chem., 2013, DOI: 10.1039/C3GC40789F

Here are the latest HOT papers published in Green Chemistry, as recommended by the referees:

Mineral neogenesis as an inspiration for mild, solvent-free synthesis of bulk microporous metal–organic frameworks from metal (Zn, Co) oxides
Cristina Mottillo, Yuneng Lu, Minh-Hao Pham, Matthew J. Cliffe, Trong-On Do and Tomislav Friščić  
Green Chem., 2013, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C3GC40520F

Metal-containing zeolites as efficient catalysts for the transformation of highly valuable chiral biomass-derived products
Cecilia Paris, Manuel Moliner and Avelino Corma  
Green Chem., 2013, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C3GC40267C

Both the papers listed above are free to access for the next 4 weeks!

Here are the latest HOT papers published in Green Chemistry, as recommended by the referees:

The electrocatalytic hydrogenation of furanic compounds in a continuous electrocatalytic membrane reactor
Sara K. Green, Jechan Lee, Hyung Ju Kim, Geoffrey A. Tompsett, Won Bae Kim and George W. Huber  
Green Chem., 2013, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C3GC00090G

Unusual reactions mediated by FMN-dependent ene- and nitro-reductases
Katharina Durchschein, Mélanie Hall and Kurt Faber  
Green Chem., 2013, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C3GC40588E

Comparative performance evaluation and systematic screening of solvents in a range of Grignard reactions
Asha Kadam, Mylinh Nguyen, Michael Kopach, Paul Richardson, Fabrice Gallou, Zhao-Kui Wan and Wei Zhang  
Green Chem., 2013, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C3GC40702K

All the papers listed above are free to access for the next 4 weeks!

Issue 6 of Green Chemistry is now available to read online.

The front cover this month features work by Mihai Irimia-Vladu and co-workers from Linz, Austria. In their work, they report the use of the natural resin shellac in organic field-effect transistors. Biocompatible and sustainable electronic-grade materials such as shellac are integral for the development of electronics for biointegration and ‘use-and-throw’ applications.

Read the full article:
Natural resin shellac as a substrate and a dielectric layer for organic field-effect transistors
M. Irimia-Vladu, E.D. Głowacki, G. Schwabegger, L. Leonat, H.Z. Akpinar, H. Sitter, S. Bauer and N.S. Sariciftci  
Green Chem., 2013, 15, 1473-1476,  DOI: 10.1039/C3GC40388B

The inside front cover this month features work by Bert F. Sels and co-workers from Heverlee, Belgium. In their work, they look at how ordered porous inorganic–organic nanocomposites and nanohybrids enable the acquirement of tailor-made properties, resulting in highly performing catalysts for applications in fine chemistry and biomass conversion.

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Tailoring nanohybrids and nanocomposites for catalytic applications
F. de Clippel, M. Dusselier, S. Van de Vyver, L. Peng, P.A. Jacobs and B.F. Sels  
Green Chem., 2013, 15, 1398-1430, DOI: 10.1039/C3GC37141G

Both of these articles are free to access for 6 weeks!

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