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. Furthermore, clear and comprehensive information exchange is key to ensuring proper regulatory compliance to environmental legislation. Here is a summary of ACD/Labs solutions that can facilitate evaluation, analytical testing, and communication 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 in order to evaluate and regulate the increasing volume of novel chemicals appearing on the market every year.

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.

Simplify Analytical Work

Even if adequate information is provided by the manufacturers, additional testing of new compounds is often warranted. Since numerous analytical techniques are commonly used to evaluate 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, Processing, and Integration of Analytical Data.

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

Proper recording of the research findings is the key to consistent and clear communication. However, writing detailed reports, formatting analytical results, and creating chemical structure drawings can slow down any project. 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.

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

Share Your Recommendations Over the Web

Since environmental groups and governmental organizations frequently open their databases and research results to their colleagues in various industries to ensure that adequate environmental information is readily available to both manufacturers and consumers, convenient databasing tools and a web interface to the databases of chemical and analytical information are needed. The same situation frequently arises within large organizations with multiple geographic locations when relevant resources must be made available over secure Intranets. Structure display visualization, and structure and substructure search capabilities make ACD/Labs web-based databases a superior choice.

Read more about our solutions for sharing chemical and analytical data over networks.

Collaboration with US EPA press release

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