Incorporating Green Chemistry Concepts into Mobile Chemistry Applications and Their Potential Uses

Green Chemistry related information is generally proprietary,
and
papers on the topic are commonly behind pay walls that limit their
accessibility. Several new mobile applications (apps) have been recently
released for the Apple iOS platform, which incorporate green chemistry
concepts. Because of the large number of people who now own a mobile
device across all demographics, this population represents a highly
novel way to communicate green chemistry, which has not previously
been appreciated. We have made the American Chemical Society Green
Chemistry Institute (ACS GCI) Pharmaceutical Roundtable Solvent Selection
Guide more accessible and have increased its visibility by creating
a free mobile app for the Apple iOS platform called Green Solvents.
We have also used this content for molecular similarity calculations
using additional solvents to predict potential environmental and health
categories, which could help in solvent selection. This approach predicted
the correct waste or health class for over 60% of solvents when the
Tanimoto similarity was >0.5. Additional mobile apps that incorporate
green chemistry content or concepts are also described including Open
Drug Discovery Teams and Yield101. Making green chemistry information
freely available or at very low cost via such apps is a paradigm shift
that could be exploited by content providers and scientists to expose
their green chemistry ideas to a larger audience.