Over the last few years a lot of attention has been paid to green chemistry Close
Green ChemistryDesign of chemical products and processes that reduce or eliminate the use and generation of hazardous substancesand its potential for helping to protect the environment and support sustainable industrial processes. More recently, it has become evident that in addition to improving the environmental footprint of products and processes, green chemistry can help chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturers improve the efficiency and reduce the cost of production. In other words, green chemistry is not only good for the environment, it’s good for business.
Smart Business
Because of its economic and environmental advantages, green chemistry is at the heart of a revolution now taking place in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. Codexis is leading the way in integrating biology and chemistry to develop novel synthetic processes that are cleaner, safer, and more cost effective than their conventional counterparts.
Green chemistry is not only good for the environment,
it’s good for business.
Green by Nature
The Codexis approach to chemical process development is inherently green. By replacing conventional synthetic methods with biocatalytic methods, Codexis creates processes that produce only the desired product without hazardous reagents CloseReagentA chemical substance that is used to start a reaction in combination with some other substanceor by-products. In addition to improving the purity and yield of the finished product, these processes can lower energy use, eliminate purification steps and reduce the cost of waste stream treatment.
These processes can lower energy use, eliminate purification steps and reduce the cost of waste stream treatment.
Proven Success
Codexis has a track record of successfully developing green chemical processes for leading pharmaceutical and chemical companies. In June 2006, Codexis received a U.S. EPA Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award for development of a biocatalytic process that greatly improved speed, safety and efficiency for the manufacture of a key chiral CloseChiralA chiral molecule is asymmetric, it cannot be superimposed on its mirror image. Many chemicals important to life are chiral. The US FDA requires that the two mirror image forms (‘enantiomers’) of a chiral compound be treated as different products that must be tested separately. Consequently, there has been extensive research into developing methods for making one or the other of the enantiomers – in other words, making the molecule chirally pure.building block used in the production of the world’s largest-selling drug for treatment of high cholesterol. The new process has also reduced waste, solvent usage, energy consumption, and the need for specialized manufacturing equipment.