Greening Chemistry: Time is a terrible reagent to waste

Check out the latest article in the "Greening Chemistry" series, an opinion column written by a rotating group of contributors in Chemical & Engineering News.

Greening Chemistry: Time is a terrible reagent to waste

Hours spent on chemical reactions can’t be recycled. Let’s make sure we conserve the ultimate nonrenewable resource.

by Isaiah Speight, special to C&EN 

Isaiah Speight is an assistant professor at William & Mary and a principal investigator at the National Science Foundation’s Center for the Mechanical Control of Chemistry.

Published July 14, 2025