Embedding sustainable practices into pharmaceutical R&D: What are the challenges?

Future Medicinal Chemistry

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1373-1376

  Sneddon, Helen ^a  

^a GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Green chemistry; Pharmaceutical industry; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIZATION; DRUG INDUSTRY; EDITORIAL; EMBEDDING; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; FLAMMABILITY; GREEN CHEMISTRY; PURIFICATION; SUPERCRITICAL FLUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; DRUG DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMICS; HUMAN; MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY; PROCEDURES; RECYCLING; TRENDS;

CHEMISTRY, PHARMACEUTICAL; DRUG DISCOVERY; DRUG INDUSTRY; GREEN CHEMISTRY TECHNOLOGY; HUMANS; RECYCLING;

EID: 84908143117     PISSN: 17568919     EISSN: 17568927     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4155/FMC.14.91     Document Type: Editorial

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