Last year the ACS GCI Pharmaceutical Roundtable sent a call for proposals, seeking to fund projects that are developing alternatives for widely employed transition metal catalyzed cross-coupling reactions (the assembly of carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroat

Request for Proposal: The ACS GCI Pharmaceutical Roundtable is seeking to fund a 1-2 year R&D program to address the Roundtable’s initiatives in iron catalysis.  Proposals should target the development of innovative and novel iron-catalyzed coupling react

Across the world, more and more chemical companies are beginning to transform their processes and products to be more efficient, less toxic, and less dependent on depleting, non-renewable resources. This move to greener chemistry is often a triple win as

Do you want to make a difference in the world? Do you want to make an impact on issues like climate change, reliance on fossil fuels, continuing contamination of air, land and water, unsafe chemicals in consumer products, and conflict minerals use?

All of

In fall 2012, Professor Neil Garg from University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) received a $50K grant from the ACS GCI Pharmaceutical Roundtable (ACS GCIPR) Medicinal Chemistry team for his project, “Development of Green Nickel-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling

What will the next twenty years of green chemistry and engineering innovations hold? This is the question that Dr. Eric Beckman seeks to illuminate in his upcoming keynote address at the 18th Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference. Beckman is a p

Contributed by Dr. Karolina Mellor, Program Manager, Center for Green Chemistry & Green Engineering at Yale

For many years chemists have designed chemicals and materials to have defined functions.  Most scientists feel comfortable with the challenge of des

By David Constable, Director, ACS Green Chemistry Institute^®

This month in The Nexus, we are highlighting the topic of critical materials and endangered elements. I would suggest that this is something often overlooked by most people, including chemists an

The American Chemical Society will recognize Thomas Edison’s botanical research laboratory as a National Historic Chemical Landmark on Sunday, May 25, 2014, at the Edison & Ford Winter Estates in Fort Myers, Fla. As early as the 1920s, Edison put green ch

Every year, the ACS Green Chemistry Institute® Green Chemistry & Engineering (GC&E) Conference hosts a special online and in-person session on a hot issue in green chemistry. This "hybrid" session isn't your typical technical session—this free event is op

Don’t miss this final opportunity to submit an abstract  for oral and poster sessions at the PanAm RCN’s Conference on Biofuels and Bioenergy Sustainability, co-organized by AIChE, IfS and SBE, on July 22-25, 2014 in Recife, Brazil. Present your work alon

Contributed by Jim Hutchison, Co-chair, Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oregon

This year’s Green Chemistry and Engineering (GC&E) Conference offers an exciting series of multi-day technical tracks al

Contributed by Dr. Chuck Spuches, Associate Professor for Outreach, SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry

The Central New York Section of the American Chemical Society, partnered with the State University of New York College of Environmental Sci

On the less glamorous side of space exploration, there’s the more practical problem of waste — in particular, what to do with astronaut pee. But rather than ejecting it into space, scientists are developing a new technique that can turn this waste burden

At the ACS National Meeting in Dallas, I had a chance to interview several representatives of ACS Student Chapters who were leading green chemistry educational activities at their institutions. Together with my colleague Doug Dollemore and the ACS Ambassa