Green Chemistry

Prioritise the prevention of waste, rather than cleaning up after the fact

• Reduce derivatives

• Designing safer chemicals

• Waste prevention

• Safer chemistry for accident prevention

Use chemicals which are made from renewable sources rather than from petrochemical sources.

• Design for degradation

• Use of renewable feedstocks

• Designing safer chemicals

• Less hazardous chemical synthesis

Atom economy

• Reduce waste at the molecular level by maximizing the number of atoms incorporated into the product

• Use catalytic instead of stoichiometric reagents in reactions

• Monitor chemical reactions in real-time as they occur to prevent the formation and release of any potentially hazardous substances

• Choose the least energy-intensive chemical route

Minimize the use of temporary derivatives such as protecting groups. Avoid derivatives to reduce reaction steps, resources required and waste created

• Safer solvents

• Safer chemistry for accident prevention

• Designing safer chemicals

• Reduce derivatives

Less hazardous chemical synthesis

• Design chemical reactions and synthetic routs to be as safe as possible

• Design chemicals that degrade and can be discarded easily that are not toxic, bioaccumulative, or environmentally persistent

• Choose and develop chemical procedures that are safer and inherently minimize the risk of accidents.

• Minimize the use of temporary derivatives such as protecting groups

Use catalytic instead of stoichiometric reagents in reactions to increase selectivity, minimize waste, and reduce reaction times and energy demands

• Design for energy efficiency

• Catalysis

• Design for degradation

• Waste prevention

Minimize toxicity directly by molecular design and evaluate aspects such as physical properties, toxicity, and environmental fate

• Safer solvents & auxiliaries

• Use of renewable feedstocks

• Design for degradation

• Designing safer chemicals

Design for degradation

• Prioritize the prevention of waste

• Minimize the use of temporary derivatives

• Minimize toxicity directly by molecular design

• Design chemicals that degrade and can be discarded easily

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