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Explainer: what is green chemistry and why does it matter?
25 years after the field’s 12 principles were first laid down, green chemistry has moved into the mainstream
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News
Partnership aims to integrate green chemistry into university courses around the world
Merck KGaA’s life science business and Beyond Benign want to reach 1 million university students a year
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Research
Water works as medium for reactions that reduce carboxylic acids
Catalytic system works on a wide range of acid substrates and doesn’t require precious metals or air and moisture intolerant reagents
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Feature
The wonderful wizards of wood
Clever chemistry can turn humble timber into a sustainable material with many uses, Kit Chapman finds
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Sponsored
Catalysing change: innovative solutions for greener chemistries
New ligands are enabling the enormous potential of cross coupling reactions to solve challenges in a range of industries
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Webinar
Is this the future of bioplastics upcycling?
Learn more about chemical methods for a new route to active upcycling of PLA
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Opinion
Nobel vision
Looking beyond the here-and-now let click chemistry open up a whole new world of possibility
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Research
Blood could supply haem centre for biomass-supported catalyst
Haemoglobin-derived catalyst used to reduce nitroarene into aromatic amines
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Research
Mineralisation makes chemical recycling of fluoropolymers a possibility
By using molten sodium hydroxide, researchers show they can produce fluorite from fluoropolymers in a two-step process
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Opinion
Supawan Tantayanon: ‘I designed my own portable lab’
The green chemistry pioneer on making labs safer, designing a portable lab and her unusual way of cooking
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Research
Low temperature method for decarbonising limestone locks carbon dioxide up as a mineral
Process could drastically cut carbon emissions associated with manufacturing cement
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Research
Green credentials of crystallisation process turned around by rotary cone dryer tweak
Mechanochemistry helps transformations and cocrystallisations cut solvent use on an industrial scale
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Research
Mashed magnesium used to prepare Grignards without worrying about air
Mechanochemical method avoids inert gas and dry solvents in classic organometallic reaction
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Research
Porous material made by mimicking deep Earth conditions
Extreme temperature changes water’s properties so it can replace organic solvent
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Sponsored
How a circular economy and nanotech save us from a clean energy bottleneck
A carbon-neutral future depends on smarter materials and circular thinking
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Research
Are organic chemists discovering fewer reactions than they were decades ago?
Analysis of millions of transformations reveals reliance on popular methods – and the rise of complex reactions
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Opinion
Taking the right inspiration from nature
Scientists need to be selective about their sources of inspiration
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Research
Peptide superstructures speed up Michael reaction
A tripeptide that self-assembles into a supramolecular fibres accelerates an asymmetric benchmark reaction by up to 74%
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Research
Glass catalysis screening study prompts reactionware rethink
Base-catalysed reactions are up to 1000 times faster in the presence of glass
