Clark, James - York University - Department of Chemistry

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The 21st century will see fundamental changes in chemical manufacturing and chemical use worldwide. Traditional petroleum resources will gradually be replaced by sustainable resources derived from nature including trees, plants and food and biorefinery wastes. Chemicals determined to be hazardous to the environment will have to be substituted. The unique set of circumstances provides an exciting opportunity for the discovery and application of new green chemistry solutions to these sustainability challenges. We are investigating a range of green chemical technologies and their application to major chemical challenges. These include environmentally friendly heterogeneous catalysis, energy efficient microwave and ultrasonic-activated processes, supercritical fluid extraction of valuable chemicals from plants, and novel materials derived from biomass. Recent breakthroughs in the York Green Chemistry Centre of Excellence include the isolation of valuable chemicals from wheatstraw, the design of new catalysts for organic chemistry in water (including the conversion of fermentation broths), and the conversion of starch and cellulose into higher value polymeric materials including a new family of carbonaceous materials with enormous applications potential

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Greening the esterification between isosorbide and acetic acid Inayat, A., van Assche, A., Clark, J. H. & Farmer, T. J. Mar 2018 Influence of Density on Microwave Pyrolysis of Cellulose Fan, J., Budarin, V. L., Clark, J. H., MacQuarrie, D. J., Gronnow, M. J., Breeden, S. W. & Shuttleworth, P. 7 Feb 2018 Synthesis, chemistry, physicochemical properties and industrial applications of amino acid surfactants: A review Tripathy, D., Mishra, A., Clark, J. H. & Farmer, T. J. 3 Feb 2018 Optimization of Amidation Reactions Using Predictive Tools for the Replacement of Regulated Solvents with Safer Biobased Alternatives Petchey, T. H. M., Comerford, J. W., Farmer, T. J., MacQuarrie, D. J., Sherwood, J. R. & Clark, J. H. Feb 2018 Sodium Chloride-Assisted Depolymerisation of Xylo-oligomers to Xylose Jiang, Z., Budarin, V. L., Fan, J., Remon Nunez, J., Li, T., hu, C. & Clark, J. H. 10 Jan 2018 Towards the development of a novel “bamboo-refinery” concept: Selective bamboo fractionation by means of a microwave-assisted, acid-catalysed, organosolv process Li, T., Remon Nunez, J., Jiang, Z., Budarin, V. L. & Clark, J. H. 1 Jan 2018 Unexpected nitrile formation in bio-based mesoporous materials (Starbons®) Attard, J., Milescu, R., Budarin, V., Matharu, A. S. & Clark, J. H. 2018 Monolithic mesoporous graphitic composites as super capacitors: From Starbons to Starenes® García, A. M., Budarin, V. L., Zhou, Y., De Bruyn, M., Hunt, A. J., Lari, L., Lazarov, V. K., Salavagione, H. J., Morales, E., Ellis, G. J., Clark, J. H. & Shuttleworth, P. S. 18 Dec 2017 Water activity in liquid food systems: A molecular scale interpretation Maneffa, A. J., Stenner, R., Matharu, A. S., Clark, J. H., Matubayasi, N. & Shimizu, S. 15 Dec 2017 From waste to wealth using green chemistry: The way to long term stability Clark, J. H. 1 Dec 2017 Valorization of spruce needle waste via supercritical extraction of waxes and facile isolation of nonacosan-10-ol McElroy, C. R., Attard, T. M., Farmer, T. J., Gaczynski, A., Thornthwaite, D., Clark, J. H. & Hunt, A. J. 3 Oct 2017 DFT and experimental analysis of aluminium chloride as a Lewis acid proton carrier catalyst for dimethyl carbonate carboxymethylation of alcohols Jin, S., Tian, Y., McElroy, C. R., Wang, D., Clark, J. H. & Hunt, A. J. 28 Sep 2017 Statistical thermodynamics unveils the dissolution mechanism of cellobiose Nicol, T. W. J., Isobe, N., Clark, J. H. & Shimizu, S. 14 Sep 2017 Challenges in the development of bio-based solvents: A case study on methyl(2,2-dimethyl-1,3-dioxolan-4-yl)methyl carbonate as an alternative aprotic solvent Jin, S., Byrne, F., McElroy, C. R., Sherwood, J., Clark, J. H. & Hunt, A. J. 1 Sep 2017 Polysaccharide-derived mesoporous materials (Starbon®) for sustainable separation of complex mixtures Zuin, V. G., Budarin, V. L., De Bruyn, M., Shuttleworth, P. S., Hunt, A. J., Pluciennik, C., Borisova, A., Dodson, J., Parker, H. L. & Clark, J. H. 1 Sep 2017 Environmental impact assessment of wheat straw based alkyl polyglucosides produced using novel chemical approaches Lokesh, K., West, C. D., Kuylenstierna, J. C. I., Fan, J., Budarin, V. L., Priecel, P., Lopez-Sanchez, J. A. & Clark, J. H. 18 Aug 2017 Controllable production of liquid and solid biofuels by doping-free, microwave-assisted, pressurised pyrolysis of hemicellulose Li, T., Remón, J., Shuttleworth, P. S., Jiang, Z., Fan, J., Clark, J. H. & Budarin, V. L. 15 Jul 2017 Chapter 3: Solvents from Waste Byrne, F. P., Jin, S., Sherwood, J. R., McElroy, C. R., Farmer, T. J., Clark, J. H. & Hunt, A. J. 30 Jun 2017 Bio-Based Solvents. Jerome, F. & Luque, R. (eds.). John Wiley & Sons, p. 49-82 33 p. The Hy-MASS concept: Hydrothermal microwave assisted selective scissoring of cellulose for: In situ production of (meso)porous nanocellulose fibrils and crystals De Melo, E. M., Clark, J. H. & Matharu, A. S. 23 Jun 2017 Identification of high performance solvents for the sustainable processing of graphene Salavagione, H. J., Sherwood, J., De Bruyn, M., Budarin, V. L., Ellis, G. J., Clark, J. H. & Shuttleworth, P. S. 7 Jun 2017