Showing papers in "Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy in 2015"

TL;DR: Through this review authors have tried to explore the therapeutic potential of A. nilotica and thus may be a promising rout for new, safe, biodegradable and renewable source of drugs with high therapeutic index.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed an integrated approach of all stakeholders involved toward more fundamental and function-based substitution by greener and more sustainable alternatives, and illustrate the various challenges in the process of phasing out and successfully substituting hazardous chemicals in consumer products and provide guiding principles for addressing these challenges.

TL;DR: In this paper, the potential cumulative PBT behavior of hundreds of personal care products (PCPs) was studied using QSAR models, and a priority list of potentially most hazardous PCPs, identified in agreement by both the modeling tools, was therefore proposed: some sun-screens are among the few PCPs identified as PBTs.

TL;DR: It would be attractive to develop a new generation of biodegradable antibiotics, which would rapidly disintegrate into innoxious and in the best case inorganic molecules such as water, carbonate, nitrate and alike in sewage treatment plants or surface water.

TL;DR: In this article, an investigation was carried out into the production of succinic acid by Actinobacillus succinogenes using the residual biomass rice husks as a sustainable carbon source.

TL;DR: In this article, isolated extracts of Moringa oleifera seeds (MOSE), obtained via a simple precipitation procedure, turned local soils or sands into highly effective flocculants for cyano-HAB blooms removal.

TL;DR: In this paper, an efficient synthetic approach to furan fatty acids starting from the biomass-derived platform chemical 5-(chloromethyl)furfural (CMF) is described.

TL;DR: In this article, a predicted environmental concentration (PEC) was calculated for the wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) and the receiving water, the River Rhine for both sites, based on maximum daily losses of the single excipients to wastewater, derived by mass balance, and the site-specific dilution factor.

TL;DR: In this article, the water quality of Lake Zirahuen and the pressures it is facing were analyzed using 32 samples of water taken at 8 defined sites in the lake in different months of the year, following protocol established by Mexican standards.