Sustainable Chemistry: A Future Guiding Principle

“… Chemistry is currently faced with one of the biggest challenges in its history. The main reaction to this is a search for how new resources can be utilized in the synthesis of (new) compounds. However, much more is needed to meet this challenge: Sustainable chemistry is simultaneously both a path...

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Published inAngewandte Chemie International Edition Vol. 56; no. 52; pp. 16420 - 16421
Main Author Kümmerer, Klaus
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Germany Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 22.12.2017
EditionInternational ed. in English
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Chemistry
Green chemistry
Sustainability
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Summary:“… Chemistry is currently faced with one of the biggest challenges in its history. The main reaction to this is a search for how new resources can be utilized in the synthesis of (new) compounds. However, much more is needed to meet this challenge: Sustainable chemistry is simultaneously both a path and a goal. It is not a new subdiscipline of chemistry, but a guiding principle. It uses the knowledge of all chemical subdisciplines along the entire lifecycles of chemical products …” Read more in the Guest Editorial by Klaus Kümmerer.
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ISSN:1433-7851
1521-3773
DOI:10.1002/anie.201709949