Dipolar aprotic and ethereal solvents comprise just over 40% of all organic solvents utilized
in synthetic organic, medicinal, and process chemistry. Unfortunately, many of the common …

Polymer membranes have attracted interest in many areas, such as desalination, water
treatment, gas separation, and energy storage and generation. Membrane fabrication …

In 2007 the members of the ACS Green Chemistry Institute® Pharmaceutical Roundtable
assembled a list of key green chemistry research areas to both identify transformations that …

This critical review provides a survey illustrated by recent references of different strategies to
achieve a sustainable conversion of biomass to bioproducts. Because of the huge number of …

Chemical reactions and many of the procedures of separation and purification employed in
industry, research or chemistry teaching utilize solvents massively. In the last decades, with …

The worldwide urge to embrace a sustainable and bio-compatible chemistry has led industry
and academia to develop of chlorine-free methodologies focused on the use of CO2 and …

Climate change, socioeconomical pressures, and new policy and legislation are driving a
decarbonization process across industries, with a critical shift from a fossil-based economy …

Dimethyl carbonate (DMC) is an environmentally sustainable compound which can be used
efficiently for the upgrading of several promising renewables including glycerol …

Volatile organic solvents derived from non-renewable fossil feedstocks are commonplace in
analytical laboratories. In spite of their convenient performance in countless unit operations …

Dimethyl isosorbide (DMI)—a well-known biobased high boiling green solvent—was used
for the first time in the preparation of poly (vinylidene fluoride)-and poly (ether sulfone) …