What: Division conference on sustainable chemistry at Merck in Darmstadt
When: 10/11.04.2025
Target group: exclusively students & doctoral candidates

You can expect a varied and sustainability-focused programme, which has been slightly expanded to mark the JCF team's birthday. For example, there will be a guided tour of the Merck site on Thursday before the joint get-together evening at Djadoo.


On Friday there will be exciting 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 doctoral, bachelor's or master's thesis research focused on sustainable topics or green aspects of chemistry and would you like to present it? Then there is the option of enriching the Division conference with a presentation (15 min + 5 min discussion round, presentation language: German / optional English).

There are three presentation slots available, which are allocated "first come, first serve".

Mülheim (Ruhr)
Chair: S.R. Waldvogel
Programme

The Division of Sustainable Chemistry, together with the JCF Sustainability Team, organised the "Division of Sustainable Chemistry" for the second time - this time at BASF in Ludwigshafen.

There was a full programme with a social event to get to know each other the evening before, specialist lectures by Prof. Herres-Pawlis (Bioinorganic Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University) and Dr. Seidensticker (Technical Chemistry, TU Dortmund University) and a guided tour of the BASF site. Participants were able to present their own sustainable research if they wished

The GDCh Division of Sustainable Chemistry hosted the "Sustainable Chemistry Online Symposium 2022" on 1 December 2022 . The event included lectures by Prof Charlotte Williams (University of Oxford, UK) and Prof Paul Anastas (Yale University, CT, USA) as well as the presentation of the PhD Awards 2022 and short presentations on the award-winning research results.

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

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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" (together with the GDCh Division 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" (together with the GDCh Division of Environmental Chemistry & Ecotoxicology). Dr Bert Weckhuysen as keynote speaker
• "Sustainable Synthesis" (together with the Liebig Association for Organic Chemistry - Division in the GDCh)
  

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Sessions of the Division of Sustainable Chemistry:

• Sustainable Organic Synthesis (together with the GDCh Division for Organic Chemistry)
• Material Utilisation 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 science perpective for the coming 10 years (M. Führ, Darmstadt)
• REACH - Member States perspective to accelerate the programme (A. Nies, Bonn)