Events of the GDCh Division of Sustainable Chemistry

What: Sustainable Chemistry Section Day at Merck in Darmstadt
When: 10/11 April 2025
Target group: students & doctoral candidates only

You can look forward to a varied and sustainability-focused programme, which has been expanded slightly to mark the JCF team’s birthday. The event will kick off on Thursday with a guided tour of the Merck site, followed by a joint get-together evening at Djadoo.

On Friday, there will be fascinating lectures by
Prof. Dr. Peer Kirsch (Merck, Darmstadt): PFAS in electronics industry: applications and replacement strategies,
Dr. Angelina Prokofyeva (Covestro, Leverkusen): How sustainability drives the chemical industry,
Prof. Dr. Siegfried Waldvogel (MPI CEC, Mülheim): Bad and good things in electrosynthesis – cathodic corrosion and cathode resilience
Dr. Sabine Bernschneider-Reif (Merck, Darmstadt): Merck since 1668 – and what about sustainability?

Is your research for your doctoral, bachelor’s or master’s thesis focused on sustainable topics or green aspects of chemistry, and would you like to present it? Then you have the option of enriching the Section Day with a lecture (15 minutes + 5-minute discussion, lecture language: German / English optional). Three lecture slots are available and will be allocated on a “first come, first served” basis.

Mülheim (Ruhr)
Chair: S.R. Waldvogel
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The Division of Sustainable Chemistry, together with the JCF Sustainability Team, organised the “Sustainable Chemistry Division Day” for the second time – this time at BASF in Ludwigshafen.

There was a full programme, including a social event to get to know one another on the evening before, specialist lectures by Prof. Herres-Pawlis (Bioinorganic Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University) and Dr. Seidensticker (technical chemistry, TU Dortmund University), as well as a tour of the BASF site. Participants had the opportunity to present their own sustainable research if they wished.

The GDCh Division of Sustainable Chemistry invited participants to the "Sustainable Chemistry Online-Symposium 2022" on 1 December 2022 . The event included presentations by Prof. Charlotte Williams (University of Oxford, UK) and Prof. Paul Anastas (Yale University, CT, USA), as well as the presentation of the 2022 doctoral prizes and short presentations on the award-winning research findings.

Sessions of the GDCh Division of Sustainable Chemistry (jointly with the GDCh Division Liebig Association for Organic Chemistry):

• Reagent-free activation in organic synthesis
• Sustainable organic synthesis methods

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Technologies for a Circular Economy
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Sessions of the GDCh Division of Sustainable Chemistry:

• “Plastics in the Environment – Options for Chemistry” (jointly with the GDCh Divisions of Analytical Chemistry, Environmental Chemistry & Ecotoxicology, Society of Water Chemistry and macromolecular chemistry)
• “Sustainable Chemistry” with Prof. Dr. Bert Weckhuysen as keynote speaker
• “Sustainable Synthesis” (jointly with the GDCh Division of Liebig Association for Organic Chemistry)
  

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Sessions of the Division of Sustainable Chemistry:

• Sustainable organic synthesis (jointly with the GDCh Division Liebig Association for Organic Chemistry)
• Material use of renewable resources
• New trends in sustainable chemistry

8th Workshop on Fats and Oils as Renewable Feedstock for the Chemical Industry

Sustainability in Chemistry
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5 Years of REACH and Further Contributions to Sustainable Chemistry

• Contributions of ECHA to the achievement of the REACH goals (G. Dancet, Helsinki/FI)
• USA Perspectives after REACH Enactment (K. Geiser, Lowell/US)
• Six years REACH - lessons learned and first experiences - an industry's view (A. Hanschmidt, Frankfurt am Main)
• REACH - a scientific perspective for the coming 10 years (M. Führ, Darmstadt)
• REACH - Member States perspective to accelerate the programme (A. Nies, Bonn)