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Ahd: Patient’s death discovered 7 hours later

In an incident that raises serious questions about Covid-19 care centres run by the city civic body, a 27-year-old coronavirus positive man died in his bed after suffering seizure at room 808-Block G3, at Samras Covid-19 care centre in Navrangpura. Only asymptomatic patients are isolated here so that they can be monitored and sent to hospital if they develop symptoms, or discharged when they turn negative.




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Palghar workers stuck in Guj wait to return home

Hundreds of brick kiln workers and their families from Dahanu and Talasari talukas stranded in Gujarat since the lockdown began, are waiting to return to their homes.




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Rajkot achieves another techno feat

In what could be a major breakthrough for N95 masks production in India, two Rajkot-based engineering firms have developed the machine indigenously to make this medically crucial masks. Most companies making N95 masks have been procuring the manufacturing machines from China, Japan and South Korea.




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Eight held for hunting nilgai in Chhota Udepur

Eight persons from Bhumaswada village in Chhota Udepur district were arrested on Friday for poaching a nilgai on April 21. The kingpin father-son duo was already nabbed on May 6.




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Parents away, cops celebrate kid's birthday

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Ahmedabad: 3,175 beds arranged in 104 hotels

The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, which had marked four hotels as Covid care centres till now, will now have 100 more hotels with a bed capacity of 3,175 for the purpose. In another important development, the civic body has planned a massive sanitization campaign in AMC areas from Saturday.




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Migrant workers clash with police in Surat

Demanding a return passage to their home states, hundreds of agitated migrant workers clashed with the police at Mora village in Gujarat's Surat district on Saturday, an official said.




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Resource Showcase: JSTOR

JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. During the Covid-19 crisis, JSTOR are providing expanded access to more than 35,000 additional eBook titles. Learn how to do research using JSTOR Learn how to teach remotely with JSTOR See what other resources the library has for your subject




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Resource Showcase: National Emergency Library

Internet Archive has launched a National Emergency Library, containing over 1.4 million ebooks that are usually restricted by institutional passwords and paywalls. These are freely available during the Covid-19 crisis until 30 June 2020. Read more about additional e-resources currently available See what e-resources we currently have on trial See what other resources the library has for your subject




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Resource Showcase: The New York Times

Did you know that you can access The New York Times via Durham University Library and Collections? As well as access to current articles, via TimesMachine you can access The New York Times archive as far back as 1851. Access The New York Times Access the archive via TimesMachine See what other newspapers and news services are available via Durham University Library and Collections




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Resource Showcase: Trial e-resources

British Online Archives: Providing access to over 80 collections of primary resources, the website hosts over 3 million records drawn from both private and public archives. These records are organised thematically, covering 1,000 years of world history, from politics and warfare to slavery and medicine. This is one of many e-resources we currently have on trial. You can see the complete list and gain access via our trial e-resources page. Please remember to leave feedback – your opinions help shape our collections.




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Resource Showcase: Trial e-resources

IBISWorld: A leading global provider of industry research and analysis. With over 6000 granular reports across 5 geographies, IBISWorld supports curriculum and course development, student assignments and projects, careers counselling/employability, entrepreneurship and new business start-up preparation. This is one of many e-resources we currently have on trial. You can see the complete list and gain access via our trial e-resources page. Please remember to leave feedback – your opinions help shape our collections.




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Resource Showcase: Daily Mirror Historical Archive

The archive features more than 800,000 pages of brand-new, full text searchable, scans of the complete run of the Mirror from 1903-2000, including the Sunday Mirror. This is one of many e-resources we currently have on trial. You can see the complete list and gain access via our trial e-resources page. Please remember to leave feedback – your opinions help shape our collections. See what other newspapers and news services are available via Durham University Library and Collections




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Synthesis of lignin-functionalized phenolic nanosphere supported Ag nanoparticles with excellent dispersion stability and catalytic performance

Green Chem., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C9GC04311J, Paper
Shilin Chen, Guanhua Wang, Wenjie Sui, Ashak Mahmud Parvez, Chuanling Si
This work presents a novel and green lignin-based nanocomposite and highlights the synergism of lignin's multiple functions (surfactant, sacrificial template, and reducing agent) in the material preparation process.
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Simplifying levulinic acid conversion towards a sustainable biomass valorisation

Green Chem., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C9GC04306C, Paper
Chiara Defilippi, Daily Rodríguez-Padrón, Rafael Luque, Cristina Giordano
In the range of biomass valorisation, hydroconversion of levulinic acid (one of the products of the hydrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass) was tested for the first time using nanosized Ni3N and Ni0 catalysts, with very promising results alongside high stability.
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One-pot hydrodeoxygenation of biomass furan derivatives into decane under mild conditions over Pd/C combined with phosphotungstic acid

Green Chem., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0GC00428F, Paper
Song Li, Long Yan, Qiying Liu, Jianguo Liu, Qiyu Liu, Wei Fan, Xuelai Zhao, Xinghua Zhang, Chenguang Wang, Longlong Ma, Qi Zhang
One-pot hydrodeoxygenation of δ-furfurylidenelevulinic acid over Pd/C combined with phosphotungstic acid through successive hydrogenolysis and HDO of furans and lactones.
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Water Effects in the Heterogeneous Catalytic Valorization of Levulinic Acid into γ-Valerolactone and its Derivatives

Green Chem., 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0GC01082K, Critical Review
Rengui Weng, Zhihao Yu, Jian Xiong, Xuebin Lu
Levulinic acid (LA), which has been hailed as a versatile biomass-derived platform molecular, typically occupy a core position in the cellulosic biorefinery system. The heterogeneous catalytic valorization of LA for...
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Humin based resin for wood modification and property improvement

Green Chem., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C9GC03620B, Paper
Open Access
Anna Sangregorio, Anitha Muralidhara, Nathanael Guigo, Lisbeth G. Thygesen, Guy Marlair, Carlo Angelici, Ed de Jong, Nicolas Sbirrazzuoli
Focus on humins, a co-product from sugar conversion, to highlight their capacity to impregnate wood cell walls for making durable wood products.
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Methylation-triggered fractionation of lignocellulosic biomass to afford cellulose-, hemicellulose-, and lignin-based functional polymers via click chemistry

Green Chem., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0GC00451K, Paper
Kentaro Miki, Hiroshi Kamitakahara, Arata Yoshinaga, Yuki Tobimatsu, Toshiyuki Takano
This paper reports a new concept for the biorefinery of lignocellulosic biomass where the derivatisation and fractionation of lignocellulose are accomplished at the same time.
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Sustainable synthesis of cobalt and cobalt oxide nanoparticles and their catalytic and biomedical applications

Green Chem., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0GC00885K, Critical Review
Siavash Iravani, Rajender S. Varma
Recent advances and essential challenges as well as catalytic and biomedical applications of cobalt oxide and cobalt nanoparticles are highlighted.
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Ni-Catalyzed hydrocyanation of alkenes with formamide as the cyano source

Green Chem., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C9GC04275J, Communication
Xiao Shu, Yuan-Yuan Jiang, Lei Kang, Luo Yang
A novel Ni-catayzed hydrocyanation of various alkenes to provide aliphatic nitriles is developed by generating hydrocyanic acid in situ from safe and readily available formamide.
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Ni-Based Heterogeneous Catalysts for the Transformation of Fatty Acids into Higher Yields of O-Free Hydrocarbons

Green Chem., 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0GC00853B, Paper
Diego Valencia, Citlalli Zenteno, Diana Gomora-Herrera, María Teresa Gómez-Pérez, Jorge Aburto
A series of novel catalytic materials were synthesized by changing the chemical compounds in the impregnation solutions. A rigid, aromatic and bidentate molecule 1,10-phenanthroline (PhN) was used as a ligand...
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Photocatalyst-free visible light promoted E → Z isomerization of alkenes

Green Chem., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C9GC04303A, Communication
Jianbin Xu, Na Liu, Haiping Lv, Chixian He, Zining Liu, Xianfu Shen, Feixiang Cheng, Baomin Fan
A photocatalyst-free, simple and green method of visible light driven photocatalytic E to Z isomerization of alkenes has been developed.
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Aqueous miscible organic layered double hydroxides as catalyst precursors for biodiesel synthesis

Green Chem., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0GC00571A, Paper
Chunping Chen, Maxwell Greenwood, Jean-Charles Buffet, Dermot O'Hare
Surface area and basicity density dependence of base-catalysed transesterification of sunflower oil by potassium salt prepared AMO-layered double hydroxides.
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Eco-friendly and sustainable synthesis of biocompatible nanomaterials for diagnostic imaging: current challenges and future perspectives

Green Chem., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0GC00734J, Critical Review
Ghazaleh Jamalipour Soufi, Siavash Iravani
Current advancements, important challenges and future perspectives of biocompatible nanomaterials for diagnostic imaging are discussed as well as their greener synthesis.
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New biobased-zwitterionic ionic liquids: efficiency and biocompatibility for the development of sustainable biorefinery processes

Green Chem., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0GC01002B, Paper
Gaël Huet, Monica Araya-Farias, Ranim Alayoubi, Sylvain Laclef, Benjamin Bouvier, Isabelle Gosselin, Christine Cézard, Romain Roulard, Matthieu Courty, Caroline Hadad, Eric Husson, Catherine Sarazin, Albert Nguyen Van Nhien
A combination of experiments and modeling reveals the influence of alkyl chain lengths in biobased ZILs on the biocompatibility towards various microorganisms.
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Synthesis of amorphous Geobacter-manganese oxide biohybrid as efficient water oxidation catalysts

Green Chem., 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C9GC04353E, Paper
Open Access
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Shafeer Kalathil, Krishna Katuri, Pascal Saikaly
The development of low cost and efficient oxygen evolution reaction (OER) catalyst has paramount importance to meet future sustainable energy demand. Nature’s photosynthetic machinery deploy manganese-based complex in photosystem II...
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A Strategy for The Assembly of Glypromate® and Structure-Related Analogues by Tandem Sequential Peptide Coupling

Green Chem., 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0GC00143K, Paper
Ivo E Sampaio-Dias, Luís Pinto da Silva, Sandra G Silva, Xerardo Garcia-Mera, José Enrique Rodriguez-Borges
This work describes an improved and greener methodology in solution-phase synthesis for the preparation of Glypromate® (glycyl-L-prolyl-L-glutamic acid, GPE), a potent neuropeptide with applications in neurodegenerative conditions such as Huntington's,...
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Thermophilic bio-electro CO2 recycling into organic compounds

Green Chem., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0GC00320D, Paper
Open Access
Laura Rovira-Alsina, Elisabet Perona-Vico, Lluís Bañeras, Jesús Colprim, M. Dolors Balaguer, Sebastià Puig
Many industrial combustion processes produce carbon dioxide (CO2) at high temperature, which may be electrically recycled into valuable chemicals using microorganisms as catalysts.
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Solvent-free hydrogenation of levulinic acid to γ-valerolactone using a Shvo catalyst precursor: optimization, thermodynamic insights, and life cycle assessment

Green Chem., 2020, 22,2443-2458
DOI: 10.1039/C9GC02088H, Paper
Open Access
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Christian A. M. R. van Slagmaat, Marie A. F. Delgove, Jules Stouten, Lukas Morick, Yvonne van der Meer, Katrien V. Bernaerts, Stefaan M. A. De Wildeman
We studied the solvent-free hydrogenation of levulinic acid to γ-valerolactone with the Shvo catalyst involving comparative catalysis, DFT, and LCA.
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Ga/ZSM-5 catalyst improves hydrocarbon yields and increases alkene selectivity during catalytic fast pyrolysis of biomass with co-fed hydrogen

Green Chem., 2020, 22,2403-2418
DOI: 10.1039/C9GC03408K, Paper
Kristiina Iisa, Yeonjoon Kim, Kellene A. Orton, David J. Robichaud, Rui Katahira, Michael J. Watson, Evan C. Wegener, Mark R. Nimlos, Joshua A. Schaidle, Calvin Mukarakate, Seonah Kim
An integrated experimental and computational study to understand the catalytic upgrading of biomass vapors into high yield of alkenes.
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Insights into pressure tunable reaction rates for electrochemical reduction of CO2 in organic electrolytes

Green Chem., 2020, 22,2434-2442
DOI: 10.1039/D0GC00013B, Paper
Charles I. Shaughnessy, David J. Sconyers, Hyun-Jin Lee, Bala Subramaniam, James D. Blakemore, Kevin C. Leonard
Modeling and simulation reveal the mechanistic basis for the pressure-tunable rates of CO2 reduction at elevated pressures of CO2.
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Dioxomolybdenum complex as an efficient and cheap catalyst for the reductive depolymerization of plastic waste into value-added compounds and fuels

Green Chem., 2020, 22,2419-2425
DOI: 10.1039/C9GC04206G, Paper
Beatriz F. S. Nunes, M. Conceição Oliveira, Ana C. Fernandes
Several types of PCL, PLA, PDO, PET and PBT plastic waste were efficiently converted into value-added compounds and fuels catalyzed by MoO2Cl2(H2O)2.
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Synthesis of renewable C–C cyclic compounds and high-density biofuels using 5-hydromethylfurfural as a reactant

Green Chem., 2020, 22,2468-2473
DOI: 10.1039/D0GC00195C, Paper
Taimei Cai, Qiang Deng, Hailong Peng, Jin Zhong, Rui Gao, Jun Wang, Zheling Zeng, Ji-Jun Zou, Shuguang Deng
Renewable C–C six-membered ring compound and high-density biofuel are synthesized using 5-hydromethylfurfural as a reactant.
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Sustainability by design: automated nanoscale 2,3,4-trisubstituted quinazoline diversity

Green Chem., 2020, 22,2459-2467
DOI: 10.1039/D0GC00363H, Paper
Open Access
Mojgan Hadian, Shabnam Shaabani, Pravin Patil, Svitlana V. Shishkina, Harry Böltz, Alexander Dömling
Automated, one step, nanoscale synthesis of 2,3,4-trisubstituted quinazoline derivatives using positive pressure facilitated dispensing to access a very large chemical space exemplified by more than 1000 compounds.
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Novel insights into biomass delignification with acidic deep eutectic solvents: a mechanistic study of β-O-4 ether bond cleavage and the role of the halide counterion in the catalytic performance

Green Chem., 2020, 22,2474-2487
DOI: 10.1039/C9GC02569C, Paper
André M. da Costa Lopes, José R. B. Gomes, João A. P. Coutinho, Armando J. D. Silvestre
The potentiality of acidic deep eutectic solvents for β-O-4 ether bond cleavage is herein demonstrated from a mechanistic point of view.
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Efficient base-free oxidation of monosaccharide into sugar acid under mild conditions using hierarchical porous carbon supported gold catalysts

Green Chem., 2020, 22,2588-2597
DOI: 10.1039/C9GC04333K, Paper
Xintong Meng, Zengyong Li, Di Li, Yiming Huang, Jiaojiao Ma, Chuanfu Liu, Xinwen Peng
The highly selective synthesis of D-xylonic acid and D-gluconic acid from monosaccharide catalyzed by Au/NC-3 under base-free aerobic oxidation conditions.
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Direct C(sp3)–H acyloxylation of indolin-3-ones with carboxylic acids catalysed by KI

Green Chem., 2020, 22,2354-2358
DOI: 10.1039/C9GC04446A, Communication
Yong-Long Zhao, Yong-Qin Tang, Xing-Hai Fei, Fen-Fen Yang, Zhuo-Xian Cao, Dong-Zhu Duan, Qing-Jie Zhao, Yuan-Yong Yang, Meng Zhou, Bin He
The first KI-catalyzed direct acyloxylation of indolin-3-ones with carboxylic acids has been developed using 30% aq. H2O2 as a green oxidant at room temperature. Moreover, mechanism studies indicated that a radical oxidation process may be involved for this transformation.
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Synthesis of bioderived polycarbonates with adjustable molecular weights catalyzed by phenolic-derived ionic liquids

Green Chem., 2020, 22,2488-2497
DOI: 10.1039/D0GC00493F, Paper
Wei Qian, Lei Liu, Zengliang Zhang, Qian Su, Weizhen Zhao, Weiguo Cheng, Li Dong, Zifeng Yang, Ruibing Bai, Fei Xu, Yanqiang Zhang, Suojiang Zhang
Phenolic ionic liquid structure can be designed readily to control the molecular weight of isosorbide-derived polycarbonates.
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Fabrication of highly proton-conductive chitosan whole-bio-membrane materials functionalized with adenine and adenosine monophosphate

Green Chem., 2020, 22,2426-2433
DOI: 10.1039/C9GC04104D, Paper
Guanglei Zhao, Yuanyuan Chen, Xiao-Feng Li, Sihan Zhang, Yuanqiu Situ
A successful strategy to prepare novel proton-conductive chitosan membrane biomaterials functionalized with adenine and adenosine monophosphate via a one-pot grafting procedure.
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A facile solution-phase synthetic approach for constructing phenol-based porous organic cages and covalent organic frameworks

Green Chem., 2020, 22,2498-2504
DOI: 10.1039/C9GC04033A, Paper
Lei Zhang, Rongran Liang, Cheng Hang, Haiying Wang, Lin Sun, Lei Xu, Dairong Liu, Zhenyi Zhang, Xingmin Zhang, Feifan Chang, Shengyu Zhao, Wei Huang
A general solution-phase synthetic strategy is developed to construct both porous organic cages (POCs) and covalent organic frameworks (COFs) by simply stirring and heating organic solvent/water solutions of aldehydes and amines in the presence of MOH (M = Na, K, and Cs).
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Upgrading 1-butanol to unsaturated, carbonyl and aromatic compounds: a new synthesis approach to produce important organic building blocks

Green Chem., 2020, 22,2365-2369
DOI: 10.1039/D0GC00254B, Communication
Jorge Mora Vargas, Luiz Henrique Tofaneli Morelato, Julieth Orduna Ortega, Mauricio Boscolo, Gustavo Metzker
Conversion of 1-butanol into added-value organic building blocks was achieved using fixed-bed flow reactor and Cu-based catalyst at 550 and 600 °C with and without methanol as addictive.
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A non-phosgene process for bioderived polycarbonate with high molecular weight and advanced property profile synthesized using amino acid ionic liquids as catalysts

Green Chem., 2020, 22,2534-2542
DOI: 10.1039/D0GC00265H, Paper
Zhencai Zhang, Fei Xu, Yaqin Zhang, Chenhao Li, Hongyan He, Zifeng Yang, Zengxi Li
Bio-based polycarbonate with high molecular weight and advanced property profile was synthesized using amino acid ionic liquids as catalysts.
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Visible-light-induced photocatalyst-free C-3 functionalization of indoles with diethyl bromomalonate

Green Chem., 2020, 22,2543-2548
DOI: 10.1039/D0GC00292E, Paper
Guangmiao Gu, Mengmeng Huang, Jung Keun Kim, Jianye Zhang, Yabo Li, Yangjie Wu
A visible-light-induced and XB-promoted green approach to construct α-indolyl diethyl malonates was developed.
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Hierarchically porous covalent organic frameworks assembled in ionic liquids for highly effective catalysis of C–C coupling reactions

Green Chem., 2020, 22,2605-2612
DOI: 10.1039/D0GC00223B, Paper
Jikuan Qiu, Huiyong Wang, Yuling Zhao, Pengxin Guan, Zhiyong Li, Hucheng Zhang, Hongshuai Gao, Suojiang Zhang, Jianji Wang
A simple and environmentally benign strategy was reported for the synthesis of hierarchically porous COFs in ionic liquids, and the obtained materials show highly effective catalytic performance for C–C bond formation reactions.
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Solvent-free and montmorillonite K10-catalyzed domino reactions for the synthesis of pyrazoles with alkynylester as a dual synthon

Green Chem., 2020, 22,2388-2393
DOI: 10.1039/D0GC00162G, Communication
Sesuraj Babiola Annes, Rajendhiran Saritha, Saravanan Subramanian, Bhaskaran Shankar, Subburethinam Ramesh
A highly regioselective, solvent-free and montmorillonite K10 clay-catalyzed domino process with an unprecedented C–C bond formation reaction is described for the synthesis of new class of tri-substituted and di-substituted pyrazole derivatives.
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Reusable, homogeneous water soluble photoredox catalyzed oxidative dehydrogenation of N-heterocycles in a biphasic system: application to the synthesis of biologically active natural products

Green Chem., 2020, 22,2575-2587
DOI: 10.1039/D0GC00569J, Paper
S. Srinath, R. Abinaya, Arun Prasanth, M. Mariappan, R. Sridhar, B. Baskar
Herein, a simple and efficient method for the oxidative dehydrogenation (ODH) of tetrahydro-β-carbolines, indolines and (iso)quinolines is described using a reusable, homogeneous cobalt-phthalocyanine photoredox catalyst in a biphasic medium.
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Base-mediated benzannulation of α-cyanocrotonates with ynones: facile synthesis of benzonitriles and fluorenes

Green Chem., 2020, 22,2370-2374
DOI: 10.1039/D0GC00608D, Communication
Maneesh Kumar Reddy Singam, Attunuri Nagireddy, Sridhar Reddy Maddi
Benzonitriles and cyanofluorenes have been rapidly obtained via the [3 + 3] benzannulation of readily available alkynones and α-cyanocrotonates using KOtBu as the only reagent and EtOH (and CO2) is the only by-product.
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One-pot synthesis of 1,3-butanediol by 1,4-anhydroerythritol hydrogenolysis over a tungsten-modified platinum on silica catalyst

Green Chem., 2020, 22,2375-2380
DOI: 10.1039/D0GC00244E, Communication
Lujie Liu, Takehiro Asano, Yoshinao Nakagawa, Masazumi Tamura, Keiichi Tomishige
Chemical production of 1,3-butanediol from biomass-derived compounds was first reported by 1,4-anhydroerythritol hydrogenolysis over a Pt–WOx/SiO2 catalyst.
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Iridium-catalyzed orthogonal and regioselective synthesis of triazole disulfides in aqueous media under mild conditions

Green Chem., 2020, 22,2394-2398
DOI: 10.1039/D0GC00555J, Communication
Ming Li, Nan Zheng, Junhao Li, Yubin Zheng, Wangze Song
Triazole disulfides were prepared in water or biological media under mild conditions by orthogonal and regioselective Ir-catalyzed reactions.
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