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Sustainable Chemistry: A Future Guiding Principle
Author(s) -
Kümmerer Klaus
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201709949
Subject(s) - path (computing) , chemistry , computer science , management science , engineering ethics , engineering , programming language
“… 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.