Comments on: Green Chemistry Mimics the Cellular Process of Drug Synthesis http://www.highlighthealth.com/eco-friendly/green-chemistry-mimics-the-cellular-process-of-drug-synthesis/ Discover the Science of Health Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:06:26 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Carnival of the Green # 100! | The Good Human http://www.highlighthealth.com/eco-friendly/green-chemistry-mimics-the-cellular-process-of-drug-synthesis/comment-page-1/#comment-2593 Carnival of the Green # 100! | The Good Human Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:46:06 +0000 http://www.highlighthealth.com/eco-friendly/green-chemistry-mimics-the-cellular-process-of-drug-synthesis/#comment-2593 [...] Green Chemistry Mimics the Cellular Process of Drug Synthesis posted at Highlight Health. [...] [...] Green Chemistry Mimics the Cellular Process of Drug Synthesis posted at Highlight Health. [...]

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]]> By: Walter http://www.highlighthealth.com/eco-friendly/green-chemistry-mimics-the-cellular-process-of-drug-synthesis/comment-page-1/#comment-2175 Walter Thu, 13 Sep 2007 01:58:13 +0000 http://www.highlighthealth.com/eco-friendly/green-chemistry-mimics-the-cellular-process-of-drug-synthesis/#comment-2175 Thanks for all the information Jim. Thanks for all the information Jim.

]]> By: James Bashkin http://www.highlighthealth.com/eco-friendly/green-chemistry-mimics-the-cellular-process-of-drug-synthesis/comment-page-1/#comment-1916 James Bashkin Tue, 11 Sep 2007 07:17:03 +0000 http://www.highlighthealth.com/eco-friendly/green-chemistry-mimics-the-cellular-process-of-drug-synthesis/#comment-1916 Thanks for covering this great chemistry - I'll be sure to link to your site from my blog. I'd like to correct a few possible misconceptions (in your blog and the follow-up comment). Green Chemistry began in the US and throughout the global scientific community long before the Pollution Prevention Act of 1990. The late Joe Breen is generally recognized as the father of Green Chemistry in the US- he passed away in 1999 and had a 20-year career as a chemist with the EPA. He is commemorated by several awards. See, e.g.: http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/acsdisplay.html?DOC=greenchemistryinstitute%5Cawards%5Cbreen.html I have a few comments paragraphs on Green Chemistry, and a helpful few links, in my week-old blog that mainly focuses on literature: http://nearlynothingbutnovels.blogspot.com/ See also the following article: http://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/journals/esthag-w/2006/oct/business/nl_anastas.html and the huge number of sites with information on Joe Breen and other pioneers in the field, including my friend, Paul Anastas. These are readily found by any search. I would also like to point out that there is not necessarily anything environmentally friendly about a process or chemical just because it is natural: nature has produced the most toxic molecules we know. Trying to mimic nature can be a great strategy for an improved chemical process, or it can lead to huge energy inefficiencies and much waste. No broad generalization will hold up here. Ricin toxin is as natural as green beans. One great thing about the Royal Society of Chemistry journal, Green Chemistry, is free and accessible (non-technical) articles in addition to great science. I highly recommend it (for full disclosure, I was associated with the journal at one time). See: http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/gc/index.asp Thanks and best wishes, Jim Thanks for covering this great chemistry – I’ll be sure to link to your site from my blog.

I’d like to correct a few possible misconceptions (in your blog and the follow-up comment). Green Chemistry began in the US and throughout the global scientific community long before the Pollution Prevention Act of 1990. The late Joe Breen is generally recognized as the father of Green Chemistry in the US- he passed away in 1999 and had a 20-year career as a chemist with the EPA. He is commemorated by several awards. See, e.g.:
http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/acsdisplay.html?DOC=greenchemistryinstitute%5Cawards%5Cbreen.html

I have a few comments paragraphs on Green Chemistry, and a helpful few links, in my week-old blog that mainly focuses on literature: http://nearlynothingbutnovels.blogspot.com/

See also the following article:

http://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/journals/esthag-w/2006/oct/business/nl_anastas.html

and the huge number of sites with information on Joe Breen and other pioneers in the field, including my friend, Paul Anastas. These are readily found by any search.

I would also like to point out that there is not necessarily anything environmentally friendly about a process or chemical just because it is natural: nature has produced the most toxic molecules we know.

Trying to mimic nature can be a great strategy for an improved chemical process, or it can lead to huge energy inefficiencies and much waste. No broad generalization will hold up here. Ricin toxin is as natural as green beans.

One great thing about the Royal Society of Chemistry journal, Green Chemistry, is free and accessible (non-technical) articles in addition to great science. I highly recommend it (for full disclosure, I was associated with the journal at one time). See:
http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/gc/index.asp

Thanks and best wishes, Jim

]]> By: MorganLighter http://www.highlighthealth.com/eco-friendly/green-chemistry-mimics-the-cellular-process-of-drug-synthesis/comment-page-1/#comment-1889 MorganLighter Sat, 08 Sep 2007 16:58:38 +0000 http://www.highlighthealth.com/eco-friendly/green-chemistry-mimics-the-cellular-process-of-drug-synthesis/#comment-1889 As I was reading this post, I kept yelling "Why synthetic when these things exist in nature" and was all set to weigh in with both guns blazing. Thank goodness I read on. I had heard about Green Chemistry but only in a peripheral way. While their 'chemistry attempts to reduce or eliminate the generation and use of hazardous substances in the design and development of chemical products and processes', I wonder why we're not taking advantage of natural methods. Flemings discovery was seminal and penicillin is made from mold. Edward Jenner discovered a cure for small pox, Ehrlich's discovery of a cure for syphilis, and on and on. We are inundated with TV commercials for drugs that can cure this and that, however the side effects of these drugs run the gambit from dizziness to death. I haven't much faith in the EPA, FDA, NIH, etc. as they're governmental agencies that I believe have 'prostituted' themselves to the big pharmas, as have most of our centers of higher learning. A possible solution for some of our maladies? Check out 'NativeRemedies.com'. As I was reading this post, I kept yelling “Why synthetic when these things exist in nature” and was all set to weigh in with both guns blazing. Thank goodness I read on.
I had heard about Green Chemistry but only in a peripheral way. While their ‘chemistry attempts to reduce or eliminate the generation and use of hazardous substances in the design and development of chemical products and processes’, I wonder why we’re not taking advantage of natural methods.
Flemings discovery was seminal and penicillin is made from mold. Edward Jenner discovered a cure for small pox, Ehrlich’s discovery of a cure for syphilis, and on and on.

We are inundated with TV commercials for drugs that can cure this and that, however the side effects of these drugs run the gambit from dizziness to death.

I haven’t much faith in the EPA, FDA, NIH, etc. as they’re governmental agencies that I believe have ‘prostituted’ themselves to the big pharmas, as have most of our centers of higher learning.

A possible solution for some of our maladies? Check out ‘NativeRemedies.com’.

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