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High- or Medium-Throughput Biodegradation Determination Challenge
The ACS GCI Pharmaceutical Roundtable seeks proposals to develop a biodegradation assay. Funding up to $130,000 is available. The selected partner will work with the ACS GCIPR to establish a reliable, predictive, and scalable assay or workflow with a relatively fast turnaround time that allows for comparisons amongst different chemical classes and supports a structure- and/or molecular property-based understanding of biodegradability during drug discovery. Proposal deadline: July 24, 2026.
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Sustainability
CYRENE™: A New Bio-based Dipolar Aprotic Solvent
Increasing the availability of safer, sustainable solvents is expected to significantly impact industrial Green Chemistry programs. Cyrene is a safer, bio-based alternative to petr...
Local Solutions for a Global Challenge: Clean Water and Sanitation in the Face of Climate Change
ACS Clean Water Summit organizers share their perspectives on the biggest challenges facing the delivery of clean water and sanitation worldwide.
Why is CO2 a Green Solvent?
Supercritical CO2 is a unique solvent that has the characteristics of variable density, low viscosity, and high diffusivity. The manipulation of these characteristics has led to nu...
Is Hydrogen Peroxide Actually a "Green" Reagent?
Hydrogen peroxide is commonly cited as a “green” reagent. It is known to produce water as an innocuous reaction byproduct, and it’s used as a safer alternative to chlorinated oxida...
Webinars
Protecting Chemists When Data Are Sparse: NAM Based Occupational Hazard Assessment in Early Drug Discovery
Join Wen Hu of AbbVie as he builds from the ground up, introducing key occupational toxicology principles, exposure banding concepts, and worker safety decision-making frameworks.
How to Scale a Sustainable Start-Up: Photochemistry Breakthroughs to High-Performance Materials from Ag Waste
Join Thomas Freese of Circolide and Raha Saremi of Ecoatex to learn how scalable flow chemistry and smart scale-up strategies turn bio-based feedstocks and U.S. agricultural residu...
Bonding with Caution: Understanding the Hazards of Peptide Couplers
Join Jessica Graham of Genentech and Alejandra Trejo-Martin of Gilead Sciences as they discuss the potential dangers of this chemical class and how to mitigate associated risks eff...
Fewer Steps, Greater Strides: Celebrating Breakthroughs in Sustainable Manufacturing
Award winners from Merck and Corteva Agriscience of the 2025 Peter J. Dunn Award for Green Chemistry & Engineering Impact in the Pharmaceutical Industry demonstrate how applying gr...
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