Identification and Preliminary Assessment of Green Platform Chemicals

Thus, the European Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability (CSS) identifies the transition of industry towards safer andmore sustainable chemicals as amajor challenge for future chemicals policy andmanagement. For this reason, the development of safe and sustainable by design (SSbD) alternatives is a must. The concept of green chemistry has become an essential innovation aiming at the transformation of the current chemical production, which is fossil based and involves substances bearing high hazardous potential, to more benign solutions. In the literature, the term “green platform chemicals” has become a synonym for describing the chemical bases for such an alternative approach.

Autor*innen Josef Kerschbaum, Martin Wimmer, Eva Stocker, Ilse Mauritz, Michael Schnürch, Marko D. Mihovilovic