Environmental Chemistry

The environmental impact of existing and potential chemicals is a growing concern worldwide. Testing and development of environmentally-friendly materials is one of the forefront tasks for many governments and research groups. Working closely with biologists, toxicologists, geologists, soil scientists, and experts in many other disciplines, environmental chemists apply numerous techniques to their research. Here is a summary of ACD/Labs solutions that can facilitate evaluation, analytical testing, and accumulation of knowledge in environmental chemistry:

Evaluate the Environmental Fate of Chemicals

The distribution of chemical pollutants is defined by their physicochemical properties. However, given the large number of known chemicals, it is often not feasible to experimentally measure the required physicochemical characteristics.

Learn more about state-of-the-art physicochemical predictive software that applies to a large range of chemical classes, and models physicochemical properties such as boiling point, vapor pressure, octanol-water partition coefficient, pH-dependant aqueous solubility, adsorption coefficient, bioconcentration factor, and more.

New software, ACD/Structure Design Suite, helps find modifications to the chemical structure that can improve environmental and biological endpoint properties of new compounds, providing a physicochemical basis for future synthetic directions.

Simplify Analytical Work

Since numerous analytical techniques are commonly used in concert to study new synthetic substances and analyze their distribution in the environment, many work hours can be saved by applying computer-assisted processing, verification, and analysis of analytical results. Among popular solutions are semi-automatic NMR structure-spectrum evaluation, and software for processing and storage of analytical data supplied by a variety of instruments running different analytical experiments. Read more about Analysis and Processing of Spectroscopic Data.

If the study of unknown compounds or impurities is your concern, please review the section on Elucidation of Unknown Substances.

ACD/Method Development Suite software can save a lot of effort by offering a variety of suitable separation methods developed for similar chemical structures (HPLC, LC, GC, CE, etc.). Read more here.

Remove Tedium from Reporting

Do you and your colleagues spend an average of 5 days per month on writing reports, formatting analytical results and making chemical structure drawings? So do many chemists in Europe, the Americas, Japan, Australia, Africa, and Asia. There are numerous software tools that can help free up time for your core research. From advanced reporting packages to freeware drawing software, from free web-based generation of IUPAC names to industry standard nomenclature software, we have a lot to offer. Read more about our solutions for:

Chemical Patenting and Nomenclature Conversion
Analytical Reports and Chemical Publication

Easily Store and Retrieve Your Chemical Information

Many of the accumulated test results have to be kept on hand for years, but searching for them through filing cabinets and reports is not always easy. Electronic database of structures, names, files, images, and analytical results can resolve this challenge. Stored legacy data can be retrieved by structure/substructure searches, or by text fields such as names, IDs, or keywords. It also ensures that all of the data submitted by numerous users is provided in a consistent manner, to avoid possible omissions. Read more

Review US EPA Resources over the Web

The EPA recently announced their Distributed Structure-Searchable Toxicity (DSSTox) Database Network which provides a community forum for publishing standard format, structure-annotated chemical toxicity data files for open public access. ACD/Labs has enhanced these files using our PhysChem predictors and systematic naming software to add these parameters to the databases. To view, choose "online database" here.
The same technology (ACD/Web Librarian) is used by large organizations with multiple geographic locations to make their structure-searchable chemical and analytical databases available over secure Intranets.