Presented by ViridisChem, this is a part of Webinar Series “Green Chemistry, what it means today for industry sectors”. Registrations Open

During this webinar, Dr. Yuanqiao Rao, Fellow at DOW and Dr. David Constable, Technical Director at ACS Green chemistry Institute have shared their decades of experience in guiding companies and communities that have products covering multiple sectors about Green Chemistry adoption, and the level of effort that companies are investing towards green chemistry and sustainable product development.  

There are now more than 100 million chemicals, and thousands of new ones are still being introduced each year. Surprisingly, though, the toxicity is known for less than 1% of chemicals, and many times it is not comprehensive enough.

ViridisChem CEO Neelam Vaidya and Technical Advisor Dr. Niteen Vaidya discuss all the factors that are taken into account to predict the toxicity of a new or postulated molecule, and how ViridisChem is approaching the toxicity prediction of novel molecules.

We talked with an experienced chemist who has worked as a synthetic medicinal chemist focusing on the drug discovery process. Here are some of the changes he’s seen and his message for peers. (For privacy’s sake, we are not printing his name). By Laurie Kretchmar

Understanding the toxicity of all the analogs and metabolites of a known drug molecule also provides interesting insights to scientists who are looking to re-purpose a drug or to find generic applications for that drug.

Scientists wondered for 20 years why coho salmon were dying on the U.S. West Coast, until chemists identified the toxin to blame.

Plastic has been filling landfills worldwide. Despite the efforts to sort and recycle, less than 9% of plastic gets recycled in the U.S. with most ending up in landfill or in the environment.