Tag: Green chemistry

A new review argues that biomolecules from plants, algae and bacteria can replace toxic solvents and energy-intensive processes in the ...

A review of laccase catalysis shows how oxygen-driven enzymes can support greener oxidation, coupling, cyclization and polymerization reactions when enzyme, ...

An ultrasound-assisted click reaction generated ten theophylline–triazole acetamide hybrids in 55 minutes, with four halogenated compounds showing the strongest activity ...

Oregon State University chemists have patented a water-based precipitation process that separates zirconium from hafnium with a record separation factor ...

Researchers engineered deliberate structural defects into a nickel metal-organic framework, boosting glucose-to-lactic acid conversion and enabling raw biomass feedstocks such ...

A new review maps how biomass-derived platform molecules such as furfural, levulinic acid, and succinic acid are replacing petroleum feedstocks ...

Turkish researchers optimized an ultrasound-assisted extraction using a choline chloride–glucose natural deep eutectic solvent that recovers pomegranate peel polyphenols with ...

A new review shows how thiol-yne and amino-yne click polymerizations overcome classical step-growth constraints and enable photodegradable precision polyketones, while ...

Researchers used computationally screened deep eutectic solvents to recover ginkgo flavonoids while removing allergenic ginkgolic acids with high selectivity.

Nigerian chemists used a solvent-free mortar-and-pestle synthesis to create a zinc-based metal–organic framework that removes 99.35 percent of methylene blue ...

Chemists in India have developed a solvent-free, zinc triflate-catalyzed Pechmann condensation that produces biologically important coumarins in high yields using ...

Researchers at ITQB NOVA have characterised the first bacterial galactose oxidase and engineered it into a biocatalyst up to 1800 ...

A solvent-free mechanochemical grinding technique locks carbamazepine into complexes with larch-derived arabinogalactan and licorice-derived disodium glycyrrhizate, boosting the epilepsy drug's ...

Chemists have harnessed the mechanical force of ball milling to generate carbon radicals that selectively couple benzyl halides with unactivated ...

Researchers have built a ruthenium catalyst anchored to iron-nitrogen-carbon sites that synthesizes ammonia at 400 degrees Celsius and 1 megapascal ...

Indian chemists have used a green microwave-assisted one-pot reaction to synthesize fused pyrano-thiazole derivatives, one of which shows potent antitubercular ...

Researchers combined supercritical CO2, a food-grade deep eutectic solvent, and microwave heating to recover highly soluble, antioxidant-rich protein from avocado ...

Chemists report that the fluorinated solvent HFIP alone can promote a one-pot, catalyst-free synthesis of biologically important pyran derivatives in ...

Researchers have engineered E. coli strains carrying up to 15 nitroreductase gene deletions that retain and biosynthesize diverse nitroaromatic compounds, ...

A green chemistry study of Turkish Ayvalık and Gemlik olive leaves shows that ultrasound-assisted extraction yields rosmarinic acid-rich extracts with ...