Hey, did you consider the impact of waste disposal as part of the cost of your API synthesis ?

Hi Everyone, I want to thank Chemjobber for the renewed interest in an article I posted a while back.  The posting was about selecting solvents, my post was “Which solvent should I choose ?”, referring to an article that was  published by some colleagues at GSK, Green Chem., 2011,13, 854-862, DOI: 10.1039/c0gc00918k.  I have an article that is somewhat related to picking solvents in my current grab-bag of chemical literature.

I have to admit that it never crossed my mind to figure out how I was going to dispose of the chemical waste my reactions were generating.  Health & Safety comes by and disposed of my chemical waste.  I think that there is a movement to introduce some self-consciousness in the chemistry we are using and part of this responsibility is to consider what impact we have on the environment (did I dare say that ?)  …