Organic Synthesis and the Environment

Many elegant syntheses published in scientific journals produce large amounts of waste when applied on the industrial scale. This problem has been ignored for a long time, resulting in a large gap between the academic achievements in organic 

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Note that the largest polluters are the pharmaceutical industry and producers of fine chemicals, those sectors of the chemical industry where organic synthesis has a dominant role. 

The economy of material from the perspective of organic synthesis is properly represented by atom utilization or atom selectivity. This parameter is obtained by dividing the molecular weight of the product by the sum of molecular weights of all 

Industrial sector Production per year (in tons) -factor (kg waste products per kg targeted product) 

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