Metal free hydrogenation of styrene under mild conditions employing boron-doped carbon nitride catalysts is reported.

Glycerol is a key by-product in biodiesel production and can be utilized in synthesis of value added chemicals. The low cost and fairly abundant availability of glycerol can be advantageous...

A large variety of dienes and alkenes can be derived from plants and used further for the production of fine chemicals or biologically active compounds. Herein, we have identified such dienes/alkenes, as well as their synthetic analogues, and presented a strategy for their conversion by atom-economical cycloaddition reactions. The catalyst used for these conversions is derived from abundantly-available aluminum metal in earth's crust, which has low toxicity, easy availability and low price in comparison to the transition metals. Astonishingly, the applications of aluminum-based catalysts are underdeveloped in comparison to the d-block metal analogues. Therefore, this review summarizes the developments in the field of cycloaddition reactions by using aluminum-based catalysts, a pathway that can be pursued for developing "Sustainable Processes". . Zeolite (81) catalysed cycloaddition of isoprene with dienes 38 (a-d) Scheme 22. Synthesis of TCPD by oligomerization of DCPD and DCPD oligomer isomerisationReviews

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