ArticleChemical science2024
Enhancing the photocatalytic upcycling of polystyrene to benzoic acid: a combined computational-experimental approach for acridinium catalyst design.
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- Aerobic Photodegradation of Pyrene-Based Metal-Organic Framework NU-1000 to Terephthalic Acid.Chemistry of materials : a publication of the American Chemical Society · 2025Article
- Facile visible-light upcycling of diverse waste plastics using a single organocatalyst with minimal loadings.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Can the Hock Process Be Used to Produce Phenol from Polystyrene?Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2025Article
- Reassessing the Photochemical Upcycling of Polystyrene Using Acridinium Salts.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2025Article
- Aerobic oxidation of alkylarenes and polystyrene waste to benzoic acidsChemical science · 2025Article
- Interfacial Reactions in Chemical Recycling and Upcycling of Plastics.ACS applied materials & interfaces · 2024Review
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Abstract
Converting polystyrene into value-added oxygenated aromatic compounds is an attractive end-of-life upcycling strategy. However, identification of appropriate catalysts often involves laborious and time-consuming empirical screening. Herein, after demonstrating the feasibility of using acridinium salts for upcycling polystyrene into benzoic acid by photoredox catalysis for the first time, we applied low-cost descriptor-based combinatorial
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