University lecturers and students

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Work began in 2000 and is ongoing

An interactive database of organic chemistry laboratory experiments that highlight important issues of sustainability.

To achieve better awareness of the important issues of sustainability in chemistry within the next generation of professional chemists, the traditional course content of chemistry classes must be revised. To provide the necessary material for the organic chemistry teaching lab course, the NOP project has developed and collected material that allows students and lecturers to assess reactions beyond the experimental set up, reaction mechanism and chemical yield. Additional parameters that are discussed are the atom economy of chemical transformations, their energy efficiency, questions of waste, renewable feedstocks, toxicity and ecotoxicity as well as the safety measures for the chemicals used. This is a joint project between six German higher education institutions: TU Braunschweig, Universität Bremen, Universität Jena, TU München, Universität Oldenburg and Universität Regensburg. The information is available as an interactive database of organic chemistry experiments: over 80 experiments are available with differing levels of difficulty translated into German, Italian and English.

German Environmental Foundation (DBU)

The NOP project is open new contributions. Use the feedback option of the web pages or contact Prof. Koenig directly if you would like to add useful new experiments, data, methods or evaluations or if you are interested to develop a national version of the database in your language. Currently German, English and Italian versions are available; Russian, Greek, Arabic and Indonesian versions are in preparation.