Research article
Cellulosic ethanol is one of the most important biotechnological products to mitigate the consumption of fossil fuels and to increase the use of renewable resources for fuels and chemicals. By performing this ...
Sustainable Chemical Processes 2016 4:15
Published on: 16 September 2016
Research article
Production of ethanol and biogas from acetic acid-impregnated steam-pretreated wheat straw was investigated. The solid fraction after pretreatment was used at high solids concentrations to generate ethanol by ...
Sustainable Chemical Processes 2016 4:14
Published on: 16 August 2016
Review
Nonribosomal peptides are products that fall into the class of secondary metabolites with a diverse properties as toxins, siderophores, pigments, or antibiotics, among others. Unlike other proteins, its biosyn...
Sustainable Chemical Processes 2016 4:13
Published on: 2 August 2016
Research article
Rubber seed oil (RSO) derived from rubber seeds is considered a promising plant oil. However, subsequent biodiesel synthesis from RSO was reported to be difficult due to the high acidity of the oil. Detailed s...
Sustainable Chemical Processes 2016 4:12
Published on: 25 July 2016
Review
Castor oil is increasingly becoming an important bio-based raw material for industrial applications. The oil is non-edible and can be extracted from castor seeds from the castor plant belonging to the family E...
Sustainable Chemical Processes 2016 4:11
Published on: 15 July 2016
Research Article
Agricultural residues, such as wheat straw, are feasible substrates for ethanol fermentation provided that pentoses and hexoses can be converted efficiently. Separate hydrolysis and cofermentation (SHCF) const...
Sustainable Chemical Processes 2016 4:10
Published on: 1 July 2016
Research article
Renewable feedstocks and bio-refinery concepts are the key to a successful transition to a sustainable chemical industry. One conceivable refinery concept is based on pyrolysis oils from biomass, though these ...
Sustainable Chemical Processes 2016 4:9
Published on: 23 June 2016
Research article
The ACS Green Chemistry Institute Pharmaceutical Roundtable was formed in 2005 to encourage the incorporation of green chemistry techniques into the synthetic pathways of pharmaceuticals. Through this initiati...
Sustainable Chemical Processes 2016 4:8
Published on: 6 June 2016
Research article
Valorization of lignin from biofuel production is the key to developing biorefinery technologies for sustainable and economic utilization of lignocellulosic biomass. Here we present isolating lignosulfonate fr...
Sustainable Chemical Processes 2016 4:5
Published on: 2 June 2016
Review
Driven by legislation and evolving attitudes towards environmental issues, establishing green solvents for extractions, separations, formulations and reaction chemistry has become an increasingly important are...
Sustainable Chemical Processes 2016 4:7
Published on: 23 May 2016
Research article
Dilute-acid pretreatment has proven to be a robust means of converting herbaceous feedstock to fermentable sugars. However, it also releases acetic acid, a known fermentation inhibitor, from acetyl groups pres...
Sustainable Chemical Processes 2016 4:6
Published on: 20 May 2016
Research article
Carbohydrates-rich materials are partly degraded during alkaline kraft pulping into a complex mixture of aliphatic carboxylic acids consisting of α-glucoisosaccharinic acid as one of the main acids. On the oth...
Sustainable Chemical Processes 2016 4:4
Published on: 27 April 2016
Mini Review
The adequacy of an organism to the environment depends in part on its ability to modify its repertoire of cellular components, such as transporters, regulatory proteins and metabolic enzymes. In this review we...
Sustainable Chemical Processes 2016 4:3
Published on: 16 February 2016
Review
Enzyme promiscuity is defined as the capability of an enzyme to catalyze a reaction other than the reaction for which it has been specialized. Although, enzyme is known for its specificity, many enzymes are re...
Sustainable Chemical Processes 2016 4:2
Published on: 2 February 2016
Research article
Fatty acids from vegetable oils are useful building blocks for industrial materials. The purpose of this work was to prepare erucic acid with high purity from a vegetable oil. High purity erucic acid is used f...
Sustainable Chemical Processes 2016 4:1
Published on: 22 January 2016
Research article
Protic ionic liquids (PILs) have been suggested as “greener” alternatives to conventional solvents in various industrial applications. In order to assess their suitability for such purposes, a thorough evaluat...
Sustainable Chemical Processes 2015 3:17
Published on: 25 November 2015
Research article
Alcohols are widely used, and sometimes renewable, reagents but the hydroxyl moiety is a relatively poor leaving group under mild conditions. Direct nucleophilic substitution of alcohols is a desirable reactio...
Sustainable Chemical Processes 2015 3:16
Published on: 13 October 2015
Research article
Miscanthus is a major bioenergy crop in Europe and a potential feedstock for second generation biofuels. The most efficient and realistic method to produce fermentable sugars from lign...
Sustainable Chemical Processes 2015 3:15
Published on: 6 October 2015
Research article
The lipase enzyme converts long chain acyltriglycerides into di- and monoglycerides, glycerol and fatty acids. The catalytic site in lipase is situated deep inside the molecule. It is connected through a tunne...
Sustainable Chemical Processes 2015 3:14
Published on: 24 September 2015
Research article
Butadiene sulfone has been employed as a “volatile”, recyclable dipolar, aprotic solvent in the reaction of benzyl halide with metal azides to form benzyl azide (1) and the subsequent reaction of benzyl azide ...
Sustainable Chemical Processes 2015 3:13
Published on: 27 August 2015
Research Article
Deep eutectic solvents (DES) have recently emerged as promising non-hazardous environmentally-friendly solvents. In this respect, the use of DES as media for multi-step enzyme-organocatalysis (C–C bond formati...
Sustainable Chemical Processes 2015 3:12
Published on: 12 August 2015
Research article
An efficient and high yielding process for the production of impurity free rivaroxaban (1), an anti-coagulant agent using alternate synthon is reported. The key components of the process involve; synthesis of 4-(...
Sustainable Chemical Processes 2015 3:11
Published on: 13 July 2015
Research article
At present, customers are more conscious about the quality of clothing items. As a result, it becomes more challenging for the manufacturers to maintain the consistent dyeing quality. Unlevelness is generally ...
Sustainable Chemical Processes 2015 3:10
Published on: 7 July 2015
Review
This review paper presents the current state of the art on maleic acid synthesis from biomass-derived chemicals over homogeneous or heterogeneous catalysts. It is based on the most recent publications on the t...
Sustainable Chemical Processes 2015 3:9
Published on: 30 June 2015
Research article
5-Hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF), an important biobased platform chemical, is accessible by the acid catalysed conversion of biopolymers containing hexoses (cellulose, starch, inulin) and monomeric sugars derived...
Sustainable Chemical Processes 2015 3:8
Published on: 25 June 2015
