ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2024
Mining the Carbon Intermediates in Plastic Waste Upcycling for Constructing C-S Bond.
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8 citing papers in PubMed.
- Sustainable Electrochemical Valorization of Sulfite in Industrial Wastewater Into Sulfonate-Based Molecules.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2026Article
- A paired electrolysis for hydroxymethanesulfonate synthesis using sulfide waste as the sulfur source.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Interfacial configurational entropy tuning strategy enabling liquid alloys for efficient depolymerization of polyolefin waste.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Bridging Green Chemistry and Circular Economy: A Pathway to Sustainable Polyester Plastics Through Feedstock, Synthesis, and Waste Upcycling.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Review
- Glycine photosynthesis via C-N coupling of waste plastic and nitrate over diatomic Pd-B catalyst.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Revisiting Pt foil catalysts for formamide electrosynthesis achieved at industrial-level current densities.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Electrocatalytic Upcycling of Plastic Waste to Organonitrogen Chemicals via Intercepting Carbon Intermediates.Nano letters · 2025Article
- Pulsed electrosynthesis of glycolic acid through polyethylene terephthalate upcycling over a mesoporous PdCu catalyst.Nature communications · 2025Article
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Abstract
Postconsumer plastics are generally perceived as valueless with only a small portion of plastic waste being closed-loop recycled into similar products while most of them are discarded in landfills. Depositing plastic waste in landfills not only harms the environment but also signifies a substantial economic loss. Alternatively, constructing value-added chemical feedstocks via mining the waste-derived intermediate species as a carbon (C) source under mild electrochemical conditions is a sustainable strategy to realize the circular economy. This proof-of-concept work provides an attractive "turning trash to treasure" strategy by integrating electrocatalytic polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic upcycling with a chemical C-S coupling reaction to synthesize organosulfur compounds, hydroxymethanesulfonate (HMS). HMS can be produced efficiently (Faradaic efficiency, FE of ∼70%) via deliberately capturing electrophilic intermediates generated in the PET monomer (ethylene glycol, EG) upcycling process, followed by coupling them with nucleophilic sulfur (S) species (i.e., SO
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