Contemporary Chemical Approaches for Green and Sustainable Drugs

Part I. Health Concerns, Risk Assessment and Environmental Monitoring of Pharmaceutical Pollutants
1. Types of Pharmaceutical Pollutants and their Environmental Risk Assessment
Marlene Ågerstrand Stockholm University
2. Novel Analytical Methods for Environmental Monitoring
Alexandros Asimakopoulos, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
3. Antibiotic Resistance and Preventative Measures
Joakim Larsson, University of Gothenburg
4. Ecotoxicogenomics for Understanding the Effects of Pharmaceutical Pollution
Helen C. Poynton, University of Massachusetts Boston
5. Drugs and Drug Byproducts as Endocrine Disruptors
Shelley R. Ehrlich, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
6. Accumulation of Drug Residues in Food
Guang-Guo Ying, South China Normal University

Part II. Computational Tools of Green Drug Design
7. Data Mining and Machine Learning in Drug Discovery and Development
Russ B. Altman, Stanford University
8. Virtual Screening Techniques in Pharmaceutical Research
Mihaly Mezei, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
9. In Silico Toxicology
Vladimir Bajic, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
10. Quantum Chemistry for the Environment
Jonathan Stevens, University of Detroit, Mercy

Part III. Green Sourcing of Drugs and Drug Candidates
11. Renewable Resources
James H Clark, University of York, UK
12. Sustainable Separations
Gyorgy Szekely, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
13. Green Solvents for Drug Synthesis
Jason Hallett, Imperial College London
14. Green Synthetic Methods in Drug Discovery and Development
Bela Torok, University of Massachusetts, Boston
15. Green Manufacturing of Pharmaceuticals
Berkeley W. Cue, BWC Pharma Consulting, LLC,and University of Massachusetts Boston
16. Green Metrics of Drug Synthesis
Roger A. Sheldon, University of the Witwatersrand

Part IV. New Chemical Directions to Reducing Drugs and their Byproducts in the Environment
17. Sustainable Nanotechnology
Rajender S Varma, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
18. Novel Water Treatment Technologies
Navid Saleh, University of Texas, Austin
19. Green Peptide-based Drugs
Marianna Torok, University of Massachusetts, Boston
20. Multi-Target Approaches in Medicinal Chemistry
Maria Laura Bolognesi, University of Bologna
21. Directed Evolution for the Production of Pharmaceuticals
Ulrich Schwaneberg, RWTH Aachen University
22. Oligonucleotide Therapeutics
Anastasia Khvorova, UMass Medical School
23. Bioorthogonal Chemistry
Binghe Wang, Georgia State University
24. Antibody-Drug Conjugates for Targeted Delivery
David R. Spring, University of Cambridge

Contemporary Chemical Approaches for Green and Sustainable Drugs provides readers with the knowledge they need to integrate sustainable approaches into their work. Sections cover different aspects of green and sustainable drug development from design to disposal, including computer-aided drug design, green resourcing of drugs and drug candidates, an overview of the health concerns of pharmaceutical pollution, and a survey of potential chemical methods for its reduction. Drawing together the knowledge of a global team of experts, this book provides an inclusive overview of the chemical tools and approaches available for minimizing the negative environmental impact of current and newly developed drugs.

This will be a useful guide for all academic and industrial researchers across green and sustainable chemistry, medicinal chemistry, environmental chemistry and pharmaceutical science.

• Provides an integrative overview of the environmental risks of drugs and drug by products to support chemists in pre-emptively addressing these issues
• Highlights the advantages of computer-aided drug design, green and sustainable sourcing, and novel methods for the production of safer, more effective drugs
• Presents individual chapters written by renowned experts with diverse backgrounds
• Reflects research in practice through selected case studies and extensive state-of-the-art reference sections to serve as a starting point in the design of any specialized environmentally-conscious medicinal chemistry project

Industrial/academic researchers, process scientists, chemical and bioengineers interested in green and sustainable chemistry, drug discovery and development. Scientists traditionally working outside of green chemistry, such as biochemists and computational chemists, whose work with powerful, advanced tools can significantly contribute to green and sustainable medicinal chemistry. Pharmaceutical industry, government officials (environmental agencies etc.) and managerial level executives in related industries and health care units. It could be used in graduate level education as a textbook, or as a supplemental textbook in medicinal chemistry, green chemistry or environmental chemistry courses