2020/06/15 by Francisco Pena‐Pereira, W. Wojnowski, Marek Tobiszewski · 23 citations
Environmental Science · Chemistry · #Chemistry and Chemical Engineering #Water Quality Monitoring and Analysis #Analytical chemistry methods development
paper · pdf · doi:10.1021/acs.analchem.0c01887
openalex publication_date 2020/06/15 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/31
Green analytical chemistry focuses on making analytical procedures more environmentally benign and safer to humans. The amounts and toxicity of reagents, generated waste, energy requirements, the number of procedural steps, miniaturization, and automation are just a few of the multitude of criteria considered when assessing an analytical methodology's greenness. The use of greenness assessment criteria requires dedicated tools. We propose the Analytical GREEnness calculator, a comprehensive, flexible, and straightforward assessment approach that provides an easily interpretable and informative result. The assessment criteria are taken from the 12 principles of green analytical chemistry (SIGNIFICANCE) and are transformed into a unified 0-1 scale. The final score is calculated based on the SIGNIFICANCE principles. The result is a pictogram indicating the final score, performance of the analytical procedure in each criterion, and weights assigned by the user. Freely available software makes the assessment procedure straightforward. It is open-source and downloadable from https://mostwiedzy.pl/AGREE.