The Acid-Base Selection Tool developed by the ACS Green Chemistry Institute Pharmaceutical Roundtable aims to enable scientists across industry and academia to choose more sustainable acids and bases. The Acid-Base Tool contains over 200 acids and bases which the user can filter by parameters including pKa (in water or acetonitrile), functional groups, melting point, and boiling point.
An Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN) combining features, including data archival, collaboration tools, and green and sustainability metrics for organic chemistry. AI4Green is a web-based application, available as open-source code and free to use. It offers the core functionality of an ELN, namely, the ability to store reactions securely and share them among different members of a research team.
Over the last decade, improvements in high-pressure liquid chromatography (from HPLC to UHPLC) and supercritical fluid chromatography (from SFC to UHP-SFC) have led to faster and more efficient separations. However, many of these improvements have yet to be implemented. To encourage analysts to develop greener methods, the Analytical Method Greeness Score (AMGS) calculator provides a straightforward metric to enable the comparison of separation methods used in drug development.
The Biocatalysis Guide is a simple double-sided, single-sheet guide to the currently most used enzyme classes amongst the ACS GCI Pharmaceutical Roundtable member companies. It has been produced to be an easy to follow guide for chemists who have not had significant exposure to biocatalysis, showing generic transformations that are available so these can be factored into retrosynthetic analysis. In order to keep the sheet easy to read it is not an exhaustive guide to every transformation and it does not carry literature references.
The Chem21 Solvent Selection Guide was produced through an academic-industry consortium in 2016. The consortium surveyed existing solvent guides from various organizations and companies, seeking to elaborate a standard ranking methodology. The methodology is based on easily available physical properties and GHS statements, permitting anyone to establish safety, health, and environment criteria of any solvent, even if full data on the solvents are not yet available. The guide includes classical and less-classical (including bio-derived) solvents.
Managed by ChemFORWARD, the data trust is designed to simplify access to chemical hazard data from dozens of credible sources, curate, maintain and continuously improve the data, and harmonize the information for actionable decision support that will accelerate the global transition to safer chemistry.
The data trust is populated and continually updated by licensed toxicologists using a comprehensive, globally accepted methodology. Each CHA is peer reviewed by independent toxicologists before being posted.
ChemFORWARD’s SAFER™ program assesses a supplier's trade name ingredient against rigorous human and environmental impacts using toxicology experts. To be designated as SAFER, all chemicals present at or above 100 ppm have been disclosed and assessed by a qualified toxicology firm against ChemFORWARD’s comprehensive hazard methodology and all chemicals subject to disclosure are well characterized and do not present high hazards. Products are reviewed annually.
ChemFORWARD is a leader in creating broad access to chemical hazard assessments and safer alternatives. Formulation Ingredient Intelligence Reports (FIIRs) are specifically designed for formulators of cleaners and degreasers to quickly screen, optimize, and pre-qualify their products for certification.
ChemFORWARD leverages a shared, globally harmonized repository of chemical hazard assessments (CHAs), to quickly and cost-effectively provide an assessment of a formulation and suggest safer alternatives where needed.
The CompTox Chemicals Dashboard is a part of a suite of databases and web applications developed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Process Mass Intensity is a common metric used in industry to measure the overall amount (or mass) of materials used to create a given amount (mass) of product. This calculator builds on the original Process Mass Intensity (PMI) calculator to accommodate convergent synthesis. Developed by the ACS Green Chemistry Institute Pharmaceutical Roundtable, the Convergent PMI Calculator uses the same calculations but allows multiple branches for single-step or convergent synthesis.