Progress in upcycling polylactic acid waste as an alternative carbon source: A review

C Sun, S Wei, H Tan, Y Huang, Y Zhang - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2022 - Elsevier
Polylactic acid (PLA) is currently the highest production of all bio-based plastics globally. Its
production will increase year by year to replace part of petroleum-based plastics to reduce …

Phosphine organocatalysis

H Guo, YC Fan, Z Sun, Y Wu, O Kwon - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
The hallmark of nucleophilic phosphine catalysis is the initial nucleophilic addition of a
phosphine to an electrophilic starting material, producing a reactive zwitterionic …

Non‐isocyanate polyurethanes: synthesis, properties, and applications

G Rokicki, PG Parzuchowski… - Polymers for Advanced …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Conventional polyurethanes are typically obtained from polyisocyanates, polyols, and chain
extenders. The main starting materials—isocyanates used in this process—raise severe …

PyFluor: a low-cost, stable, and selective deoxyfluorination reagent

MK Nielsen, CR Ugaz, W Li… - Journal of the American …, 2015 - ACS Publications
We report an inexpensive, thermally stable deoxyfluorination reagent that fluorinates a
broad range of alcohols without substantial formation of elimination side products. This …

Synthesis and applications of thiosulfonates and selenosulfonates as free-radical reagents

X Wang, J Meng, D Zhao, S Tang, K Sun - Chinese Chemical Letters, 2023 - Elsevier
Chalcogenative sulfones (thiosulfonates and selenosulfonates), as reactants for organic
transformations, are widely used and interesting because of their potential to react with …

Highly-crystalline triazine-PDI polymer with an enhanced built-in electric field for full-spectrum photocatalytic phenol mineralization

H Zhang, X Chen, Z Zhang, K Yu, W Zhu… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2021 - Elsevier
Herein, a conjugated triazine-perylene diimide (triazine-PDI) polymer photocatalyst is
prepared, and its full-spectrum photo-oxidative activity is evaluated. Enhanced dipole …

Design and Application of Chiral Bifunctional 4-Pyrrolidinopyridines: Powerful Catalysts for Asymmetric Cycloaddition of Allylic N-Ylide

Q Luo, Z Tian, J Tang, J Wang, Y Tian, C Peng… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
We designed bifunctional 4-pyrrolidinopyridines as powerful Lewis base catalysts. The
catalyst structure features a 4-hydroxy-2-(hydroxydiphenylmethyl) pyrrolidine-1-formyl group …

Chiral guanidines and their derivatives in asymmetric synthesis

S Dong, X Feng, X Liu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Over the past two decades, chiral guanidines and their derivatives have emerged as one of
the most powerful organocatalysts mainly on the basis of their strong basicity and/or …

Organic superbases in recent synthetic methodology research

TR Puleo, SJ Sujansky, SE Wright… - Chemistry–A European …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Organic superbases are a distinct and increasingly utilized class of Brønsted base that
possess properties complementary to common inorganic bases. This Concept article …

Guanidine post-functionalized crystalline ZIF-90 frameworks as a promising recyclable catalyst for the production of biodiesel via soybean oil transesterification

W **e, F Wan - Energy Conversion and Management, 2019 - Elsevier
In the current research, a porous solid base catalyst (ZIF-90-Gua) was prepared through
covalent post-functionalization of zeolitic imidazolate framework ZIF-90 with organic …