Analytical Chemistry

Analytical chemistry is fundamental to many activities across the pharmaceutical industry. By prioritizing green analytical chemistry, the ACS GCI Pharmaceutical Roundtable (GCIPR) will contribute to a more sustainable and environmentally friendly approach to chemical analysis, ultimately reducing our ecological footprint and promoting a healthier planet for future generations. Strategies to advance green analytical chemistry include emphasizing and prioritizing the innovation, development, and application of methods, techniques, and approaches that minimize the use of hazardous substances, reduce energy consumption, and generate less waste across our chemistry discipline. The GCIPR’s analytical focus team is actively engaged across the Roundtable’s strategic pillars and throughout its global membership. Key activities:

• Promoting awareness of green analytical challenges through the sharing of recent articles of interest that describe how these challenges are being overcome.
• Raising the profile of how measuring the greenness of analytical techniques informs chemists to make more sustainable and environmentally friendly decisions during method design and optimization.
• Working with instrument vendors to incorporate sustainable thinking into the design and application of their products.
• Working with academia using grant-funded projects that innovate in areas where analytical chemistry needs to succeed to realize our ambitions at being as green as we can be.
• Ensuring we have the right tools and measures that are freely available to all, which give analytical chemists the clarity of the environmental impact of their methods throughout their lifecycle.
• Helping to steer a green and sustainable course for new and up-coming analytical chemists through education and awareness lectures and learning.