Looking back at 2019, we would like to highlight some of the great research that has been published in RSC Advances over the year. We are proud to present a selection of the most popular 2019 articles published on green chemistry so far.
We hope you enjoy reading these articles – free to read and accessible to everyone.
Happy New Year from the RSC Advances team!
Green synthesis of silver nanoparticles: biomolecule-nanoparticle organizations targeting antimicrobial activity
Anupam Roy, Onur Bulut, Sudip Some, Amit Kumar Mandal and M. Deniz Yilmaz
RSC Adv., 2019,9, 2673-2702. DOI: 10.1039/c8ra08982e
Review
Nitroketene N,S-acetals: synergistic building blocks for the synthesis of heterocycles
Saigal, Sarfaraz Khan, Habibur Rahman, Shafiullah and Md. Musawwer Khan
RSC Adv., 2019,9, 14477-14502. DOI: 10.1039/c9ra00630c
Review
Metal nanoparticles fabricated by green chemistry using natural extracts: biosynthesis, mechanisms, and applications
Hesham R. El-Seedi, Rehan M. El-Shabasy, Shaden A. M. Khalifa, Aamer Saeed, Afzal Shah, Raza Shah, Faiza Jan Iftikhar, Mohamed M. Abdel-Daim, Abdelfatteh Omri, Nahid H. Hajrahand, Jamal S. M. Sabir, Xiaobo Zou, Mohammed F. Halabi, Wessam Sarhan and Weisheng Guo
RSC Adv., 2019,9, 24539-24559. DOI: 10.1039/c9ra02225b
Review
Cycloaddition of atmospheric CO2 to epoxides under solvent-free conditions: a straightforward route to carbonates by green chemistry metrics
Aazam Monfared, Robab Mohammadi, Akram Hosseinian, Shahriar Sarhandi and Parvaneh Delir Kheirollahi Nezhad
RSC Adv., 2019,9, 3884-3899. DOI: 10.1039/c8ra10233c
Review
Graphene oxide decorated with zinc oxide nanoflower, silver and titanium dioxide nanoparticles: fabrication, characterization, DNA interaction, and antibacterial activity
Nagi El-Shafai, Mohamed E. El-Khouly, Maged El-Kemary, Mohamed Ramadan, Ibrahim Eldesoukey and Mamdouh Masoud
RSC Adv., 2019,9, 3704-3714. DOI: 10.1039/c8ra09788g
Miscanthus grass-derived carbon dots to selectively detect Fe3+ ions
Maisyn Picard, Suman Thakur, Manjusri Misra and Amar K. Mohanty
RSC Adv., 2019,9, 8628-8637. DOI: 10.1039/c8ra10051a
Solvent-controlled synthesis of multicolor photoluminescent carbon dots for bioimaging
Yang Yan, Longyu Xia and Lan Ma
RSC Adv., 2019,9, 24057-24065. DOI: 10.1039/c9ra04241e
Green synthesis of a AgCl@AgI nanocomposite using Laminaria japonica extract and its application as a visible-light-driven photocatalyst
Zhongyu Ruan, Guihong Liu, Jinxia Shu, Chunguang Ren and Zhonghua Wang
RSC Adv., 2019,9, 5858-5864. DOI: 10.1039/c8ra09263j
Green synthesis and in situ immobilization of gold nanoparticles and their application for the reduction of p-nitrophenol in continuous-flow mode
Rózsa Szűcs, Diána Balogh-Weiser, Evelin Sánta-Bell, Eszter Tóth-Szeles, Tamás Varga, Zoltán Kónya, László Poppe and István Lagzi
RSC Adv., 2019,9, 9193-9197. DOI: 10.1039/c8ra10373a
A simple and green synthesis of carbon quantum dots from coke for white light-emitting devices
Xiaoting Feng and Yi Zhang
RSC Adv., 2019,9, 33789-33793. DOI: 10.1039/c9ra06946a
Catalyst-free hydrophosphination of alkenes in presence of 2-methyltetrahydrofuran: a green and easy access to a wide range of tertiary phosphines
Damien Bissessar, Julien Egly, Thierry Achard, Pascal Steffanut and Stéphane Bellemin-Laponnaz
RSC Adv., 2019,9, 27250-27256. DOI: 10.1039/c9ra04896k
Synthesis of novel benzopyran-connected pyrimidine and pyrazole derivatives via a green method using Cu(II)-tyrosinase enzyme catalyst as potential larvicidal, antifeedant activities
Ashraf Abdel-Fattah Mostafa, Chidambaram SathishKumar, Abdulaziz Abdulrahman Al-Askar, Shaban R. M. Sayed, Radhakrishnan SurendraKumar and Akbar Idhayadhulla
RSC Adv., 2019,9, 25533-25543. DOI: 10.1039/c9ra04496e
A greener approach towards the development of graphene-Ag loaded ZnO nanocomposites for acetone sensing applications
Digambar Y. Nadargi, Ramesh B. Dateer, Mohaseen S. Tamboli, Imtiaz S. Mulla and Sharad S. Suryavanshi
RSC Adv., 2019,9, 33602-33606. DOI: 10.1039/c9ra06482f
Biosynthesis of silver nanoparticles using endophytic bacteria and their role in inhibition of rice pathogenic bacteria and plant growth promotion
Ezzeldin Ibrahim, Hatem Fouad, Muchen Zhang, Yang Zhang, Wen Qiu, Chengqi Yan, Bin Li, Jianchu Mo and Jianping Chen
RSC Adv., 2019,9, 29293-29299. DOI: 10.1039/c9ra04246f
Synthesis and catalytic performance of a small crystal NaY zeolite with high SiO2/Al2O3 ratio
Liang Mu, WeiWei Feng, Haobin Zhang, Xiubin Hu and Qingyan Cui
RSC Adv., 2019,9, 20528-20535. DOI: 10.1039/c9ra03324f
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