Where Does Pharmaceutical Green Chemistry Application
Begin and End?
Pharmaceutical Green Chemistry begins with medicinal
(discovery) chemistry. The prevalent argument against this
asserts that process optimization techniques applied in
discovery consume resources upon projects that fall to
attrition, concluding that Green Chemistry proves inappropriate.
This is valid only if a discovery scientist interprets
priorities of process chemistry as representing Medicinal
Green Chemistry. The principles of Green Chemistry do not
require that discoVery scientist accept a process paradigm
but instead insist that all scientists deVelop their own unique
application to improVe performance in line with their own
priorities.