Issue 5, 2015

Opportunities for greener alternatives in chemical formulations

Abstract

Formulated products, including household care and personal care products, contain some components that need to be replaced because of identified or suspected negative effects on health or the environment. The creativity and expertise of the academic green chemistry community could contribute to the identification of more desirable replacements for such components, if the community were aware of the needs. The formulator's industry, through the ACS Formulator's Roundtable, has identified 10 classes of components that are particularly in need of replacement. These classes are described, as are the characteristics that ideal replacements should possess.

Graphical abstract: Opportunities for greener alternatives in chemical formulations

Article information

Article type
Perspective
Submitted
17 Nov. 2014
Accepted
23 Febr. 2015
First published
23 Febr. 2015
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Green Chem., 2015,17, 2664-2678

Opportunities for greener alternatives in chemical formulations

P. G. Jessop, F. Ahmadpour, M. A. Buczynski, T. J. Burns, N. B. Green II, R. Korwin, D. Long, S. K. Massad, J. B. Manley, N. Omidbakhsh, R. Pearl, S. Pereira, R. A. Predale, P. G. Sliva, H. VanderBilt, S. Weller and M. H. Wolf, Green Chem., 2015, 17, 2664 DOI: 10.1039/C4GC02261K

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