Green Reactions In the Pharmaceutical Industry

Tuesday, November 18, 2008: 8:30 AM
Room 106-A (Pennsylvania Convention Center)

Description:
This session will provide a forum for the discussion of green reactions used in the pharmaceutical industry from research to manufacturing. Papers discussing recent advances, fundamentals, and industrial applications are welcome at the session. Topics include green reaction pathways, increasing the efficiency of reactions, using enzyme, biocatalysts, etc as well as emerging trends and future directions in green reactions. Modeling and experimental investigations as well as case studies showing improvements to minimize environmental impacts are welcome.


Sponsor:
Topical 5: Green Engineering and Sustainability in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Co-Sponsor(s):
Pharmaceuticals (15b)


Chair:
Sanjeev Katti
Email: sanjeev.katti@genzyme.com

CoChair:
Amit Mehrotra
Email: amit.q.mehrotra@gsk.com


8:30 AM
(223a) Green Chemistry in the Redesign of the Celecoxib Manufacturing Process
Leo J. Letendre, Cynthia Snoddy, George H. Klemm and William McGhee

8:55 AM

9:45 AM
(223d) Combi-Clea for Reactions in Continuous Flow Supercritical CO2
Betti Kondor, Juan García-Serna, Neil R. Thomas, Martyn Poliakoff and María José Cocero

10:10 AM