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Walk-Up Automated Reaction Profiling (WARP) System: A Tool for Reaction Monitoring Designed for Discovery Chemists

2025 Green Discovery Chemistry Award

The Pfizer team has been awarded the inaugural prize for their submission, “Walk-Up Automated Reaction Profiling (WARP) System: A Tool for Reaction Monitoring Designed for Discovery Chemists.” The WARP system emphasizes waste reduction and minimizing exposure to hazardous substances. The technology provides a useful and versatile profiling tool for challenging reactions and is capable of improving reaction yields, shortening reaction times, and enhancing efficiency in various chemical processes while also reducing environmental impact. It features a simple user interface system to allow open-access use, offering a wide range of options for chemists and expanding the reach of the green chemistry technologies. The winning team consists of Muhammad Alimuddin, John Braganza, Paul Richardson, Wei Wang, and Alex Yanovsky, pictured below.

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Sustainability in Organic Chemistry: 20 Years of the ACS GCIPR Grants Program

Join session organizers Isamir Martinez (ACS GCI) and Paul Richardson (Pfizer) in this ORGN session exploring new approaches to chemical synthesis relevant to the pharmaceutical industry that utilize green chemistry. This session highlights academic research funded by the ACS GCI Pharmaceutical Roundtable.

This session has 10 presentations:
  • 2:00 PM Introductory Remarks
  • 2:05 PM HTE platform for developing greener C-H amination chemistries
  • 2:35 PM Increasing sustainability in polymer synthesis: from peptides to nanoparticles
  • 3:05 PM Complex fragment coupling via MHAT / SH2 reactions
  • 3:35 PM Intermission
  • 3:50 PM Biocatalytic and chemoenzymatic strategies for accessing privileged small molecules
  • 4:20 PM Innovations in peptide synthesis fueled by a focus on green chemistry
  • 4:50 PM Sustainable nitrogen atom transfer reactions to access small ring heterocycles
  • 5:20 PM Industry and academic partnerships: new problems and a little funding add up to big advancements
  • 5:50 PM Concluding Remarks
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  • 2:00 p.m. – 5:55 pm, PST
  • Sunday, March 23, 2025
  • Room 30E (San Diego Convention Center)

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Practical Green Chemistry Tools and Techniques for Research & Development Scientists

This workshop will equip industry-based R&D chemists and engineers as well as graduate students with practical Green Chemistry tools, methods, and metrics. The content of this workshop will cover green chemistry basics through to the most recent innovative tools and metrics widely used in the pharmaceutical industry. The workshop will be tailored toward scientists and engineers working in batch chemical operations in common use within the pharma industry, but the tools may be applied to other allied chemical industries (e.g. agriscience and animal health).

What you will learn:

  • Fundamentals of green chemistry and engineering
  • Tools that the pharmaceutical, agriscience, and animal health industries routinely use to optimize their synthetic chemical processes.
  • How to use these tools to make “greener” decisions in synthetic drug design and process development
  • Real-world applications from experienced pharma industry process development chemists

LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS WORKSHOP.

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ACS Fall 2025

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This workshop will be next presented at ACS Fall 2025, which will be held in Washington, DC, on August 17–21, 2025. For more information, see the meeting website at www.acs.org. Register for the workshop when you register for the conference.

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Sustainability in Organic Chemistry: Special Student and Postdoc Session

The development of new synthetic methodologies and strategies has been the cornerstone upon which sustainable industrial processes are built. The pure research advances arising from academia fuel the world’s industrial innovation while also training the scientific leaders of tomorrow. This special session highlights the research of graduate students and postdoctoral scholars across the broader, global organic chemistry community, which has the potential to impact sustainable industrial chemistry. From abstracts submitted to this session, eight or more students will be selected to:

  • Give a 20-minute oral presentation
  • Receive up to $1200 each in travel reimbursement
  • Be invited to a pre-conference, full-day student workshop
  • Be invited to the exclusive ACS GCI Industrial Roundtable Poster Reception

    Session Organizer: David Leahy, Biohaven

    GC&E Conference

    Presented at the

    This session will be presented at the 29th Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference, which will be held in Pittsburgh, PA, on June 23-26, 2025. Call for abstracts is open January 3–February 14, 2025. For more information, see www.gcande.org.

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    Practical Considerations for a More Sustainable Medicinal Chemistry DMTA Lifecycle

    Covering topics such as in silico tools to filter compound designs to reduce the number of compounds being synthesized; direct to biology type technologies; practical methods to carry out ‘greener chemistry’ for example novel (more efficient/sustainable) methodologies for classical reaction types; new purification methods; alternative reagents to avoid toxic/environmentally damaging reagents; reaction miniaturization efforts for Medicinal Chemistry (beyond hit finding).

      Session Organizers: Paul Richardson, Pfizer; Kristy Anderson, Boehringer Ingelheim; Alvaro Enriquez Garcia, Lilly.

      GC&E Conference

      Presented at the

      This session will be presented at the 29th Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference, which will be held in Pittsburgh, PA, on June 23-26, 2025. Call for abstracts is open January 3–February 14, 2025. For more information, see www.gcande.org.

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      Twenty Years of Sustainable Continuous Flow Chemistry: Lessons Learned

      This symposium plans to unite various practitioners of Flow Chemistry across a broad range of modalities and track the evolution of Flow, highlighting the synergies not only with other technologies but also with the academic community. The latter is showcased by a number of grants awarded in this space, while overlaps exist with the Medicinal Chemistry, Peptides, Oligos, and Analytical Teams, amongst others.

        Session Organizers: Paul Richardson, Pfizer; Olivier Dapremont, SK Pharmteco

        GC&E Conference

        Presented at the

        This session will be presented at the 29th Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference, which will be held in Pittsburgh, PA, on June 23-26, 2025. Call for abstracts is open January 3–February 14, 2025. For more information, see www.gcande.org.

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