Foreword to the Special Issue dedicated to the 6th International IUPAC Conference on Green Chemistry
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Natalia P. Tarasova
It is my great pleasure and honour to introduce to the readers the Special Issue of PAC, dedicated to the 6th International IUPAC Conference on Green Chemistry.
Five topics that have been discussed at the Conference (Green Materials, Green Bioprocesses, Green Energy, Green industrial processes and Molecular innovation, Green Policy, Sustainability and Safety) cover the areas of great importance encompassed within IUPAC’s mission to provide objective scientific expertise and to disseminate the chemical knowledge for the benefit of everybody, enabling the humanity with the essential tools to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
Chemistry, and in particular, Green Chemistry not only fully promotes sustainable development, but it also provides concrete answers and solutions to global challenges for the wider benefit to society as a whole in all fields: health, education, agriculture, industry and energy.
In this regard, I would like to mention the cooperation of IUPAC and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), including the coordination of the dedicated sessions at the IUPAC Green Chemistry Conferences since 2014. I would also like to note that the recent achievements in the OPCW-IUPAC relations, the field of Green Chemistry being among them, were marked in 2016 by the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding between IUPAC and the OPCW.
Another example is the PhosAgro/UNESCO/IUPAC Program on Green Chemistry for Life which was a very tangible outcome of the 2011 International Year of Chemistry. PhosAgro is one of the world’s leading producers of phosphate-based mineral fertilizers. Six awards of approximately €30,000 have been made in each of the years 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017 with the 24 prizewinners coming from different countries spread right around the world. The successful young researchers have made presentations at a special meeting at the headquarters of PhosAgro in Moscow, at the IUPAC General Assembly at Busan, at a meeting of the Scientific Advisory Board of the UN Secretary General in St. Petersburg, at the Sixth IUPAC Conference on Green Chemistry in Venice, and, most recently at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF’17). An additional special Prize for a project associated with phosphogypsum has been awarded.
This has been an outstandingly successful program attracting as it has young researchers from the best-known institutions in the world of green chemistry as also very importantly from many of the countries in the developing world. Its success has been highly appreciated by PhosAgro, and the decision was made to maintain the program for the next 3 years. The 5th call for prizes for 2018 is now open with a closing date of February 28th, 2018.
In conclusion, I would like to point out that, in proclaiming the year 2019 as the International Year of Periodic Table of Chemical Elements, the United Nations General Assembly has recognized the importance of raising global awareness of how chemistry promotes sustainable development using Green Chemistry as a basic instrument for sustainable development that touches many aspects of the environment and human welfare.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- In this issue
- Foreword
- Foreword to the Special Issue dedicated to the 6th International IUPAC Conference on Green Chemistry
- Preface
- The 6th International IUPAC Conference on Green Chemistry 4–8 September 2016 – Venezia (Italy)
- Conference papers
- Sustainability in art conservation: a novel bio-based organogel for the cleaning of water sensitive works of art
- Facile and sustainable functionalization of graphene layers with pyrrole compounds
- Studies to optimize the process of biofuel production from castor stalk
- Catalytic processes in the chemistry of lactic acid and PLLA: enzymatic stereoselective alcoholysis of rac-lactide
- Valorisation of chitinous biomass for antimicrobial applications
- Evaluating the potential of natural surfactants in the petroleum industry: the case of hydrophobins
- The coupling of carbon dioxide with ethene to produce acrylic acid sodium salt in one pot by using Ni(II) and Pd(II)-phosphine complexes as precatalysts
- Graphene hydrogel supported palladium nanoparticles as an efficient and reusable heterogeneous catalysts in the transfer hydrogenation of nitroarenes using ammonia borane as a hydrogen source
- Formates for green catalytic reductions via CO2 hydrogenation, mediated by magnetically recoverable catalysts
- An ion-exchange strategy for I-doped BiOCOOH nanoplates with enhanced visible light photocatalytic NOx removal
- Design and synthesis of organic sensitizers with enhanced anchoring stability in dye-sensitized solar cells
- Molecular iodine as a mild catalyst for cross-coupling of alkenes and alcohols
- Green multicomponent synthesis of four different classes of six-membered N-containing and O-containing heterocycles catalyzed by an efficient chitosan-based magnetic bionanocomposite
- IUPAC Technical Report
- Interpreting and propagating the uncertainty of the standard atomic weights (IUPAC Technical Report)
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- In this issue
- Foreword
- Foreword to the Special Issue dedicated to the 6th International IUPAC Conference on Green Chemistry
- Preface
- The 6th International IUPAC Conference on Green Chemistry 4–8 September 2016 – Venezia (Italy)
- Conference papers
- Sustainability in art conservation: a novel bio-based organogel for the cleaning of water sensitive works of art
- Facile and sustainable functionalization of graphene layers with pyrrole compounds
- Studies to optimize the process of biofuel production from castor stalk
- Catalytic processes in the chemistry of lactic acid and PLLA: enzymatic stereoselective alcoholysis of rac-lactide
- Valorisation of chitinous biomass for antimicrobial applications
- Evaluating the potential of natural surfactants in the petroleum industry: the case of hydrophobins
- The coupling of carbon dioxide with ethene to produce acrylic acid sodium salt in one pot by using Ni(II) and Pd(II)-phosphine complexes as precatalysts
- Graphene hydrogel supported palladium nanoparticles as an efficient and reusable heterogeneous catalysts in the transfer hydrogenation of nitroarenes using ammonia borane as a hydrogen source
- Formates for green catalytic reductions via CO2 hydrogenation, mediated by magnetically recoverable catalysts
- An ion-exchange strategy for I-doped BiOCOOH nanoplates with enhanced visible light photocatalytic NOx removal
- Design and synthesis of organic sensitizers with enhanced anchoring stability in dye-sensitized solar cells
- Molecular iodine as a mild catalyst for cross-coupling of alkenes and alcohols
- Green multicomponent synthesis of four different classes of six-membered N-containing and O-containing heterocycles catalyzed by an efficient chitosan-based magnetic bionanocomposite
- IUPAC Technical Report
- Interpreting and propagating the uncertainty of the standard atomic weights (IUPAC Technical Report)
