Welcome to the first issue of Green Chemistry for 2007, our 9th year of publication.

Editorial:

Editors Martyn Poliakoff, Walter Leitner and Sarah Ruthven discuss the year ahead for Green Chemistry and recent innovations from the RSC, including the RSC Open Science scheme.

Perspective:

The Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU) is among the world's largest environmental foundations working to promote sustainable chemistry. In this Perspective article, Maximilian Hempel, who is based at the DBU in Osnabrück, Germany, describes its fields of promotion and some of the results of the DBU's successfully completed projects.

 

 

 

 

 

On the cover:

This month's cover was designed by Mark Harmer of the DuPont Central Research & Development Experimental Station, USA.  It illustrates how a superacid, TFESA, and a supported version have been developed that have all the benefits of traditional superacids but are much easier to handle, have a wider processing window and are simple to follow using 1H NMR.

You can read the accompanying paper by Dr Harmer et al. by following the link below.