RSC Sustainability

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A journal from the Royal Society of Chemistry for solutions-focused research dedicated to solving sustainability challenges and enabling the UNโ€™s Sustainable Development Goals. Published by @rsc.org ๐ŸŒ Website: rsc.li/rscsustainability

New Paper in #๐†๐ซ๐ž๐ž๐ง๐‚๐ก๐ž๐ฆ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฒ โžก๏ธ ๐’๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ข๐ง๐š๐›๐ฅ๐ž ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ซ๐ž๐œ๐ฒ๐œ๐ฅ๐š๐›๐ฅ๐ž ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ฆ๐ž๐ซ ๐œ๐จ๐ฅ๐จ๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฌ๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ฆ ๐ฏ๐ข๐š ๐ฌ๐ข๐ณ๐ž-๐ญ๐ฎ๐ง๐š๐›๐ฅ๐ž, ๐ฉ๐ข๐ ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ-๐ž๐ง๐œ๐š๐ฉ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐œ๐š ๐ฆ๐ข๐œ๐ซ๐จ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ: ๐ž๐ง๐š๐›๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐œ๐ข๐ซ๐œ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐š๐ซ ๐ž๐œ๐จ๐ง๐จ๐ฆ๐ฒ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐š๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐œ๐ฌ ๐Ÿ”— doi.org/10.1039/d6gc... Press release: www.omu.ac.jp/en/info/rese... @rsc.org #PlasticRecycling #CircularEconomy

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Excited to announce that ๐˜™๐˜š๐˜Š ๐˜š๐˜ถ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ข๐˜ฃ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜บ will be sponsoring two poster prizes at the 2026 ๐—ฅ๐—ฆ๐—– ๐——๐—ฎ๐—น๐˜๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—–๐—ผ๐—บ๐—บ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ถ๐˜๐˜† ๐—ฆ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐˜๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—จ๐—ป๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€๐—ถ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—ฆ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐˜๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—œ๐—ป๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ด๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ถ๐—ฐ ๐—–๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ณ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ฒ (USIC) ๐ŸŽ‰

Highlighting an upcoming flagship ๐—ฅ๐—ผ๐˜†๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—ฆ๐—ผ๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐˜๐˜† ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—–๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ถ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฟ๐˜† (@rsc.org) conference on ๐—”๐—œ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—–๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ถ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฟ๐˜† to be held in Xiamen, ๐—–๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฎ from ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿต-๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿญ ๐—ก๐—ผ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ, 2026 ๐Ÿงช Discover more here๐Ÿ‘‰ www.rsc.org/events/find-... Register here ๐Ÿ‘‰ www.rscfirst.org.cn/en/web/index... #RSCFIRST #ArtificalIntelligence #AI

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โœจ๐—ก๐—ฒ๐˜„ ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—น๐—ฒ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐™๐™Ž๐˜พ ๐™Ž๐™ช๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™–๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™–๐™—๐™ž๐™ก๐™ž๐™ฉ๐™ฎ โœจ ๐Ÿ‘‰ ๐—›๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ต ๐—”๐˜๐—ผ๐—บโ€“๐—˜๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ผ๐—บ๐˜† ๐—Ÿ๐—ผ๐˜„โ€“๐—ง๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐——๐—ฒ๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐—น๐˜†๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐˜‡๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—ฃ๐—ผ๐—น๐˜†๐—ฒ๐˜๐—ต๐˜†๐—น๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฒ ๐—ง๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฝ๐—ต๐˜๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—น๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฒ ๐—จ๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—–๐—ต๐—ผ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ ๐—›๐˜†๐—ฑ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐˜…๐—ถ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ ๐˜Š๐˜ข๐˜ฏ ๐˜—๐˜Œ๐˜› ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฐ๐˜ญ๐˜บ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ฆ๐˜ง๐˜ง๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ช๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ญ๐˜บ ๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ด ๐˜ธ๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜จ๐˜ฉ ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ ๐˜ฆ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜บ?

High Atom-Economy Low-Temperature Depolymerization of Polyethylene Terephthalate Using Choline Hydroxide

This study investigates the low-temperature depolymerization of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) using near-stoichiometric choline hydroxide (ChOH) in methanol, assisted by dichloromethane (DCM) or di...

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๐Ÿ“ข ๐™๐™Ž๐˜พ ๐™Ž๐™ช๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™–๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™–๐™—๐™ž๐™ก๐™ž๐™ฉ๐™ฎ ๐—›๐—ข๐—ง ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—น๐—ฒ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐˜„๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ธ โœจ Chemoselective Reduction of Thioureas to N-Methylamines and N,N-Dimethylamines Using Cu-based Catalyst (Li ๐˜ฆ๐˜ต ๐˜ข๐˜ญ.) โžก๏ธ pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... #RSCSustainability #Sustainability

Chemoselective Reduction of Thioureas to N-Methylamines and N,N-Dimethylamines Using Cu-based Catalyst

We report a general copper-catalyzed hydrogenative reduction of thioureas to N-methylamine and N,N-dimethylamine (10 examples, 42-99% carbon utilization rate) using PhSiH3 as the hydrogenation reagent...

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๐Ÿ“ข New in ๐˜™๐˜š๐˜Š ๐˜š๐˜ถ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ข๐˜ฃ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜บ: ๐—œ๐—บ๐—บ๐—ผ๐—ฏ๐—ถ๐—น๐—ถ๐˜‡๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐˜†๐—ฐ๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ฏ๐—น๐—ฒ ๐—–๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฎ๐—น๐˜†๐˜€๐˜๐˜€ ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐——๐—ฒ๐˜‚๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐˜‚๐—บ ๐—Ÿ๐—ฎ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—น๐—น๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด: ๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜ ๐——๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ฝ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐˜€ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—˜๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ด๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ฆ๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ด๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐˜€ โ™ป๏ธ (@rossvanvuuren.bsky.social ๐˜ฆ๐˜ต ๐˜ข๐˜ญ.) Read here โžก๏ธ doi.org/10.1039/D6SU...

Immobilized and Recyclable Catalysts for Deuterium Labelling: Recent Developments and Emerging Strategies

Deuterated (deuterium, D-labelled) compounds have become indispensable across a wide range of applications in medicinal chemistry and materials science, driving significant interest in the development...

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๐™๐™Ž๐˜พ ๐™Ž๐™ช๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™–๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™–๐™—๐™ž๐™ก๐™ž๐™ฉ๐™ฎ ๐—›๐—ข๐—ง ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—น๐—ฒ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐˜„๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ธ! โค๏ธโ€๐Ÿ”ฅ Tracing oxygen-atom relocation from carbohydrates to renewable chemicals for redox-economic and waste-minimized syntheses (Dr. Saikat Dutta) Read here โžก๏ธ pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... #RSCSustainability #Sustainability

Tracing oxygen-atom relocation from carbohydrates to renewable chemicals for redox-economic and waste-minimized syntheses

Small organic molecules bearing oxygen-containing functionalities are key chemical building units in the organic chemical manufacturing industries. Biomass-derived carbohydrates are promising feedstoc...

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We are excited to announce our third round of Sustainable Laboratories Grant recipients, who will share more than ยฃ200,000. These projects will explore how we can cut the environmental impact of work in labs & create new best practice. Learn more about this yearโ€™s recipients: rsc.li/4cXb0K8 #ChemSky

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๐Ÿ“ข New in ๐˜™๐˜š๐˜Š ๐˜š๐˜ถ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ข๐˜ฃ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜บ: ๐—Ÿ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ด๐—ฒ ๐—ฆ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—น๐—ฒ ๐—ฉ๐—ฎ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐˜‡๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—ข๐—ณ ๐—ฆ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—น ๐—ฆ๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ด ๐—–๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฏ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ช๐—ถ๐˜๐—ต ๐— ๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ฏ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฒ-๐—•๐—ฎ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐——๐—ถ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐˜ ๐—”๐—ถ๐—ฟ ๐—–๐—ฎ๐—ฝ๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—™๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—–๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฏ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐— ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—น๐—ถ๐˜‡๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป: ๐—” ๐—ง๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ป๐—ผ-๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ถ๐—ฐ ๐—˜๐˜ƒ๐—ฎ๐—น๐˜‚๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป (Sanyal ๐˜ฆ๐˜ต ๐˜ข๐˜ญ.)

On the cover of #RSCSustainability Issue 4 ๐Ÿ‘€ ๐—”๐˜‚๐˜๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ถ๐—บ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐˜ƒ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—š๐—›๐—š ๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ถ๐˜€๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜€ ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—น๐—ฐ๐˜‚๐—น๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—ฝ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—บ๐—ฎ/๐—ณ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—น๐˜€ ๐˜€๐˜†๐—ป๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ๐˜€๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—ฅ&๐——: ๐—š๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฆ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ฎ๐˜€ ๐—ฎ ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ถ๐˜๐—ฎ๐—น ๐˜๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—น ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐˜ƒ๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฒ ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ฒ๐˜… ๐˜ƒ๐—ฎ๐—น๐˜‚๐—ฒ ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ถ๐—ป๐˜€: by Alexander Dauth, Benjamin Kรผhne and colleagues โžก๏ธ doi.org/10.1039/D5SU... #SustainableChemistry

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Check out the science behind the cover in Issue 4 of #RSCSustainability ๐Ÿ‘€ ๐—ง๐—ผ๐˜„๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฑ ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ฏ๐—น๐—ฒ ๐—ผ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—บ๐—ผ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—ฏ๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐˜€ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐˜„๐—ฎ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฒ: ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐—ต ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ถ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฟ๐˜† ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐—ต ๐—ฎ๐—ฑ๐—ต๐—ฒ๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ต ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐˜€ by Genki Horiguchi and Yohei Okada โžก๏ธ doi.org/10.1039/D5SU... #SustainableChemistry

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๐—ก๐—ฒ๐˜„ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐˜™๐˜š๐˜Š ๐˜š๐˜ถ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ข๐˜ฃ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜บ: A greener way to make valuable imines: light-driven, aerobic heterogeneous catalysis with reusable titania. Adding Cu nanoparticles boosts selectivity retention and reuse, with solvent recovery and evidence-based green metrics. pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/A... #Sustainability

Aerobic titania photocatalysis: selective oxidative dehydrogenation of tetrahydroisoquinoline and related amines

3,4-Dihydroisoquinolines are high-value chemicals, both as medicinally relevant compounds and as intermediates for the synthesis of 1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisoquinoline derivatives, which are widely regarded as privileged scaffolds in drug discovery. Though envisaged as a direct route, the partial oxidation of 1,2

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You have until 31st March to enter your essay in this year's competition โžก๏ธโžก๏ธ www.iocd.org/v3_site/Essa... #SustainableChemistry #ChemSky

RSC Sustainability@rscsustainability.rsc.org ยท 7mo ago

Calling all young scientists! ๐Ÿ“ฃ The ๐˜ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜๐˜ฐ๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ฆ๐˜ด ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜Š๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ญ ๐˜š๐˜ค๐˜ช๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ค๐˜ฆ๐˜ด ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ ๐˜š๐˜ถ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ข๐˜ฃ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜บ global essay competition is back for 2026! Theme: "๐—›๐—ผ๐˜„ ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐˜€๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜€๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐˜€๐˜‚๐˜€๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—ฏ๐—น๐—ฒ ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜€ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—ฐ๐—น๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐˜„๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—ฎ๐—น๐—น ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ๐˜€?โ€ ๐Ÿ”— www.iocd.org/v3_site/Essa... #ChemSky #SustainableChemistry