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2021 Publications

Alarcon, R.T., Gaglieri, C., Lamb, K.J., Cavalheiro, E.T.G., North, M. & Bannach, G. (2021). A new acrylated monomer from macaw vegetable oil that polymerizes without external photoinitiators. J Polym Res, 28, 425.

Alarcon, R.T., Lamb, K.J., Bannach, G. & North, M. (2021). Opportunities for the use of Brazilian biomass to produce renewable chemicals and materials. ChemSusChem, 14(1), 169-188.

Antonio, A.S., Wiedemann, L.S.M., Galantea, E.B.F., Guimarães, A.C., Matharu, A.S. & Veiga-Junior, V.F. (2021). Efficacy and sustainability of natural products in COVID-19 treatment development: opportunities and challenges in using agro-industrial waste from Citrus and apple. Heliyon, 7(8), e07816.

Armstrong, K., Bachmann, M., Bardow, A., Cao, X.E., Cassiola, F., Cummings, C., Dowson, G., Kamali, A.R., Leitner, W., Manyar, H., McCord, S., North, M., Pant, D., Park, A-H. A., Pérez-Fortes, M., Platt, E., Poon, J., Ramírez, A., Sick, V., Styring, P., Tanzer, S.E., Tanveer, W., Thomas, O. & Whiston, K. (2021). Life cycle and upscaling: general discussion. Faraday Discuss., 230, 308-330.

Armstrong, K., Barbarino, S., Cao, X.E., Cassiola, F., Catlow, R.A., Claeys, M., Conway, M., Cowan, A.J., de Leeuw, N.H., Dowson, G.R.M., Fischer, N., Ghaderian, A., Ghosh, S., Kamali, A.R., Khan, S., Kyrimis, S., Lawes, N., Leitner, W., Maneiro, M., Manyar, H., Marquart, W., McCord, S., Moore, E., North, M., Olsbye, U., Pant, D., Poon, J., Quesne, M.G., Ranocchiari, M., Rossi, L., Esquius, J.R., Shozi, M., Sick, V., Styring, P., Tan, J., Tanzer, S.E., Thomas, O., Whiston, K. & Wolf, M. (2021). Thermal catalytic conversion: general discussion. Faraday Discuss., 230, 124-151.

Arora, G., Shrivastava, R., Kumar, P., Bandichhor, R., Krishnamurthy, D., Kumar Sharma, R., Matharu, A.S., Pandey, J. & Rizwan, M. (2021). Recent advances made in the synthesis of small drug molecules for clinical applications: An insight. Current Research in Green and Sustainable Chemistry, 4, 100097.

Bardow, A., Bizzarri, C., Cao, X.E., Cowan, A.J., Cummings, C., Del Angel Hernandez, V., Doan, H., Dowson, G., Ghosh, S., Gil, V., Gugujonovic, K., Kamali, A.R., König, M., Leitner, W., Luo, J., Madhav, D., Maneiro, M., Manyar, H., McCord, S., Moore, E., North, M., Pant, D., Perry, S., Poon, J., Rossi, L., Ruiz Esquius, J., Schreiber, M., Shozi, M., Sick, V., Styring, P., Tanveer, W., Thomas, O., Whiston, K. & Yu, E. (2021). Emerging technologies: general discussion. Faraday Discuss., 230, 388-412.

Bouxin, F., Budarin, V.L., Fan, J. & Clark, J.H. (2021). Electrical conductivity of wood sawdust using graphite catalytic coating: Unlocking the microwave-assisted pyrolysis efficiency of lignocellulosic biomass. Sustainable Energy & Fuels, 5, 3895-3905.

Byrne, F., Assemat, J., Stanford, A., Farmer, T.J., Comerford, J. & Pellis, A. (2021). Enzyme-catalyzed synthesis of malonate polyesters and their use as metal chelating materials. Green Chemistry, 23, 5043-5048.

Byrne, F.P., Clark, J.H., Angelici, C., de Jong, E. & Farmer, T.J. (2021). Greenness assessment and synthesis for the bio-based production of the solvent 2,2,5,5-Tetramethyloxolane (TMO). Sustain. Chem., 2(3), 392-406.

Cárdena, J., Orjuela, A., Sánchez, D.L., Narváez, P.C., Katryniok, B. & Clark, J.H. (2020). Pre-treatment of used cooking oils for the production of green chemicals: A review. Journal of Cleaner Production, 125129.

Feng, S., Liu, X., Fan, J., Hu, C. & Clark, J.H. (2021). Unexpected formation of organic siloxanes alongside ethylphenols in the catalytic hydrogenation of waste enzymatic lignin. Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research, 2100059.

Fish, H., Hart, S., Lamb, K. J., North, M., Quek, S. C. Z., Whitwood, A. C., Woods, B., & Wu, X. (2021). Structural analysis of five-coordinate aluminium(salen) complexes and its relationship to their catalytic activity. Dalton Transactions, 50(2), 587-598.

Gak, A., Kuznetsova, S., Nelyubina, Y., Korlyukov, A.A., Li, H., North, M., Zhereb, V., Riazanov, V., Peregudov, A.S., Khakina, E., Lobanov, N., Khrustalev, V.N. & Belokon, Y.N. (2021). Inhibition by water during heterogeneous Brønsted acid catalysis by three-dimensional crystalline organic salts. Cryst. Growth Des., 21(11), 6364–6372.

Gao, Y., Ozel, M. Z., Dugmore, T., Sulaeman, A., & Matharu, A. S. (2021). A biorefinery strategy for spent industrial ginger waste. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 401, 123400.

Gao, Y., Remón, J., & Matharu, A. S. (2021). Microwave-assisted hydrothermal treatments for biomass valorisation: a critical review. Green Chemistry, 23(10), 3502-3525.

Guo, L., Lamb, K. J., & North, M. (2021). Recent developments in organocatalysed transformations of epoxides and carbon dioxide into cyclic carbonates. Green Chemistry, 23(1), 77-118.

Jackson, A. & Hurst, G.A. (2021). Faculty perspectives regarding the integration of systems thinking into chemistry education. Chem. Educ. Res. Pract., 22, 855-865.

Jia, C., Luo, J., Fan, J., Clark, J.H., Zhang, S. & Zhu, X. (2021). Urgently reveal longly hidden toxicant in a familiar fabrication process of biomass-derived environment carbon material. Journal of Environmental Sciences, 100, 250-256.

Jiang, Z., Xu, S., Ding, W., Gao, M., Fan, J., Hu, C., Shi, B. & Clark, J.H. (2021). Advanced masking agent for leather tanning from stepwise degradation and oxidation of cellulose. Green Chemistry, 23, 4044-4050.

Jin, S., Byrne, F.P., Clark, J.H., McElroy, C.R., Quinn, A., Sherwood, J. & Hunt, A.J. (2021). 3-Methoxybutan-2-one as a sustainable bio-based alternative to chlorinated solvents. RSC Advances, 11, 39412-39419.

Johar, P., Rylott, E.L., McElroy, C.R., Matharu, A.S. & Clark, J.H. (2021). Phytocat – a bio-derived Ni catalyst for rapid de-polymerization of polystyrene using a synergistic approach. Green Chemistry, 23, 808-814.

Kuznetsova, S.A., Gorodishch, I.V., Gak, A.S., Zherebtsova, V.V., Gerasimov, I.S., Medvedev, M.G., Kitaeva, D.K., Khakina, E.A., North, M. & Belokon, Y.N. (2021). Chiral titanium(IV) and vanadium(V) salen complexes as catalysts for carbon dioxide and epoxide coupling reactions. Tetrahedron, 82, 131929.

Kwong, A., Firth, J. D., Farmer, T. J., & O'Brien, P. (2021). Rapid “high” temperature batch and flow lithiation-trapping of N-Boc pyrrolidine. Tetrahedron, 81, 131899.

Lawrenson, S. B., Pearce, A. K., Hart, S., Whitwood, A. C., O'Reilly, R. K., & North, M. (2021). Synthesis of cytotoxic spirocyclic imides from a biomass-derived oxanorbornene. Tetrahedron, 77, 131754.

Liu, X., Bouxin, F.P., Fan, J., Budarin, V.L., Hu, C. & Clark, J.H. (2021). Microwave-assisted catalytic depolymerization of lignin from birch sawdust to produce phenolic monomers utilizing a hydrogen-free strategy. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 402, 123490.

Liu, X., Bouxin, F.P., Fan, J., Gammons, R., Budarin V.L., Hu, C. & Clark J.H. (2021). Effect of metal triflates on the microwave-assisted catalytic hydrogenolysis of birch wood lignin to monophenolic compounds. Industrial Crops and Products, 167, 113515.

Lu, Z., Zheng, Q., Zeng, G., Kuang, Y., Clark, J.H. & Tu, T. (2021). Highly efficient NHC-iridium-catalyzed β-methylation of alcohols with methanol at low catalyst loadings. Science China Chemistry, 64, 1361–1366.

Marshall, J.E., Zhenova, A.,Roberts, S., Petchey, T., Zhu, P., Dancer, C.E.J., McElroy, C.R., Kendrick, E. & Goodship, V. (2021). On the solubility and stability of polyvinylidene fluoride. Polymers, 13(9), 1354.

Martínez, J., de la Cruz-Martínez, F., de Sarasa Buchaca, M.M., Fernández-Baeza, J., Sánchez-Barba, L.F., North, M., Castro-Osma, J.A. & Lara-Sánchez, A. (2021). Efficient synthesis of cyclic carbonates from unsaturated acids and carbon dioxide and their application in the synthesis of biobased polyurethanes. ChemPlusChem, 86, 460–468.

Milescu, R.A., Zhenova, A., Vastano, M., Gammons, R., Clark, J.H., McElroy, C.R. & Pellis, A. (2021). Polymer chemistry applications of Cyrene™ and its derivative Cygnet 0.0 as safer replacements for polar aprotic solvents. ChemSusChem, 14(16), 3367–3381.

Narisetty, V., Cox, R., Willoughby, N., Aktas, E., Tiwari, B., Matharu, A.S., Salonitis, K. & Kumar, V. (2021). Recycling bread waste into chemical building blocks using a circular biorefining approach. Sustainable Energy Fuels, 5, 4842-4849.

Ogunjobi, J.K., McElroy, C.R., Clark, J.H., Thornthwaite, D., Omoruyi, O.E. & Farmer, T.J. (2021). A class of surfactants via PEG modification of the oleate moiety of lactonic sophorolipids: synthesis, characterisation and application. Green Chem., 23, 9906-9915.

Oumarou Amadou, A., De Gaudenzi, G. P., Marcheselli, G., Cara, S., Piredda, M., Spiga, D., Matharu, A. S., De Gioannis, G., & Serpe, A. (2021). A new facile solvometallurgical leaching method for the selective Co dissolution & recovery from hard metals waste. International Journal of Refractory Metals and Hard Materials, 98, 105534.

Ozorio, L.P., Henrique, F.J.S., Comerford, J.W., North, M. & Mota, C.J.A. (2021). Zeolite-mediated production of cyclic organic carbonates: reaction of CO2 with styrene oxide on zeolite Y impregnated with metal halides. Reaction Chemistry & Engineering, 6, 672-678.

Remon, J., Latorre-Viu, J., Matharu, A.S., Pinilla, J.L. & Suelves, I. (2021). Analysis and optimisation of a novel ‘almond-refinery’ concept: Simultaneous production of biofuels and value-added chemicals by hydrothermal treatment of almond hulls. Science of the Total Environment, 765, 142671.

Shen, Y., Zheng, Q., Chen, Z-N., Wen, D., Clark, J.H., Xu, X, & Tu, T. (2021). Highly efficient and selective N‐formylation of amines with CO2 and H2 catalyzed by porous organometallic polymers. Angew. Chem., 60, 4125–4132.

Shi, Y., Chen, Z., Cao, Y., Fan, J., Clark, J.H., Luo, G. & Zhang, S. (2021). Migration and transformation mechanism of phosphorus in waste activated sludge during anaerobic fermentation and hydrothermal conversion. J. Hazard. Mater., 403, 123649.

Trowse, B,R., Byrne, F.P., Sherwood, J., O’Brien, P., Murray, J. & Farmer, T.J. (2021). 2,2,5,5-tetramethyloxolane (TMO) as a solvent for Buchwald–Hartwig aminations. ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 9(51), 17330–17337.

Wulandari, P.A.C., Ilmi, Z.N., Husen S.A., Winarni, D., Alamsjah, M.A., Awang, K., Vastano, M., Pellis, A., Macquarrie, D.J. & Pudjiastuti, P. (2021). Wound healing and antioxidant evaluations of alginate from sargassum ilicifolium and mangosteen rind combination extracts on diabetic mice model. Appl. Sci., 11(10), 4651.

Xing, X., Wang, R., Bauer, N., Ciais, Cao, J., Chen, J., Tang, X., Wang, L., Yang, X., Boucher, O., Goll, D., Peñuelas, J., Janssens, I.A., Balkanski, Y., Clark, J.H., Ma, J., Pan, B., Zhang, S., Ye, X., Wang, Y., Li, Q., Luo, G., Shen, G., Li, W., Yang, Y. & Xu, S. (2021). Spatially explicit analysis identifies significant potential for bioenergy with carbon capture and storage in China. Nature Communications, 12, 3159.

Yang, A., Su, Y., Wang, Z., Jin, S., Ren, J., Zhang, X., Shen, W. & Clark, J.H. (2021). A multi-task deep learning neural network for predicting flammability-related properties from molecular structures. Green Chemistry, 23, 4451-4465.

Yu, I.K.M., Chen, H., Abeln, F., Auta, H., Fan J., Budarin V.L., Clark, J.H., Parsons, S., Chuck C.J., Zhang, S., Luo, G. & Tsang, D.C.W. (2021). Chemicals from lignocellulosic biomass: A critical comparison between biochemical, microwave and thermochemical conversion methods. Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology, 51(14), 1479-1532.

Yuan, Y., Chu, D., Fan, J., Zou, P., Qin, Y., Geng, Y., Cui, Z., Wang, X., Zhang, C., Li, Clark, J.H., Li, Y., & Wang, X. (2021). Ecofriendly conversion of algal waste into valuable plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) biomass. Waste Management, 120, 576-584.

Zhan, J., Hu, R., Luo, X., Zhang, C., Luo, G., Fan, J., Clark, J.H. & Zhang, S. (2021). Green Chem., DOI: 10.1039/D1GC04046D.

Zhang, H., Clark, J.H., Geng, T., Zhang, H. & Cao, F. (2021). A carbon catalyst co-doped with P and N for efficient and selective oxidation of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural into 2,5-diformylfuran. ChemSusChem, 14(1), 456-466.

Zhang, H., Wang, S., Zhang, H., Clark, J.H. & Cao, F. (2021). A biomass-derived metal-free catalyst doped with phosphorus for highly efficient and selective oxidation of furfural into maleic acid. Green Chemistry, 23, 1370-1381.

Zhou, N., Zhang, C., Cao, Y., Zhan, J., Fan, J., Clark, J.H. & Zhang, S. (2021). Conversion of xylose into furfural over MC-SnO_x and NaCl catalysts in a biphasic system. Journal of Cleaner Production, 311, 127780.

Zhu, Z., Liu, Y., Gomez, L. D., Wei, T., Yang, X., Simister, R., McQueen Mason, S. J., & MacQuarrie, D. J. (2021). Thermochemical pretreatments of maize stem for sugar recovery: Comparative evaluation of microwave and conventional heating. Industrial Crops and Products, 160, 113106.

Zhu, Z., Wang, Z., Jian, Y., Sun, H., Zhang, G., Lynam, J.M., McElroy, C.R., Burden, T.J., Inight, R.L., Fairlamb, I.J.S., Zhang, W. & Gao, Z. (2021). Pd-Catalysed carbonylative Suzuki–Miyaura cross-couplings using Fe(CO)₅ under mild conditions: generation of a highly active, recyclable and scalable ‘Pd–Fe’ nanocatalyst. Green Chemistry, 23, 920-926.

Zhu, X., Zhang, L., Zou, G., Chen, Q., Guo, Y., Liang, S., Hu, L., North, M. & Xie, H. (2021). Carboxylcellulose hydrogel confined-Fe3O4 nanoparticles catalyst for Fenton-like degradation of Rhodamine B. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 180, 792-803.

Zitzmann, F.L., Ward, E., Meng, X. & Matharu, A.S. (2021). Microwave-assisted defibrillation of microalgae. Molecules, 26, 4972.

Zuin, V.G. & Kümmerer, K. (2021). Towards more sustainable curricula. Nat Rev Chem, 5, 76–77.