Rethinking chemistry - we need chemistry to tackle global challenges such as climate change, energy transformation and feeding more and more people around the world. But it's not just about making existing methods and processes better and more sustainable. In many areas, we have to break completely new ground, throw the old ways overboard and develop something new, in other words, completely rethink them.

For this reason, the GDCh Executive Board decided in 2022 to declare Rethinking Chemistry the GDCh motto. Rethinking Chemistry is intended to provide space for new thoughts and ideas on all topics to which chemistry can and must make valuable contributions

Here you will find a collection of all contributions and activities relating to Rethinking Chemistry. The collection will be continuously expanded. The latest posts can be found above.

Let's think big (December 2024)

Lead article by Peter H. Seeberger, founding director of the Centre for the Transformation of Chemistry (CTC), in the News from Chemistry

Out with the old, in with the new (February 2024)

Lead article by Christian Schiller, founder and CEO of Cirplus in the chemistry news

Time to rethink (December 2023)

Rethinking chemistry is what the GDCh wants to do in the coming years. But what does this mean in concrete terms? Nachrichten aus der Chemie wanted to know and asked the "presidential think tank". A discussion with Stefanie Dehnen (President-elect of the GDCh), Karsten Danielmeier (current President), and Peter R. Schreiner (former President).

Rethinking Chemistry - Talking with Presidents of Chemical Societies (December 2023)

At the GDCh Science Forum Chemistry in Leipzig, which was also held under the motto Rethinking Chemistry, Nachrichten aus der Chemie together with the online chemistry magazine Chemistry Views asked representatives of chemical societies what they associate with Rethinking Chemistry. Link to the Video (YouTube)

Times of change (September 2023)
Editorial by Dr Stefan Pirker, Vice President of GÖCH, Head of Circular Economy Innovation, OMV in the news from the chemical industry

Rethinking Chemistry in Applied Chemistry (August 2023)

Guest editorial by Karsten Danielmeier (GDCh President) and Peter R. Schreiner (Vice President) in Angewandte Chemie on the occasion of the GDCh Science Forum Chemistry 2023. https://doi.org/10.1002/ange.202311238

Virtual special issue Rethinking Chemistry (August 2023)

For the GDCh Science Forum Chemistry from 4 to 6 September 2023, Angewandte Chemie has compiled a virtual special issue Rethinking Chemistry.

One Submission - One Tree (September 2023)

On the occasion of the Science Forum under the motto Rethinking Chemistry the Angewandte Chemie has launched its One Submission - One Tree initiative. From 1 September 2023 until the end of the year, a tree will be planted for every manuscript submitted.

Rethinking the world of work (March 2023)
Editorial by Kai Beckmann, Member of the Merck Executive Board, CEO of Electronics and President of the German Chemical Employers' Association (BAVC), in the News from the Chemical Industry

What digitalisation means (February 2023)
Editorial by Prof. Dr Jochen Maas, Managing Director Research and Development, Sanofi-Aventis Germany, in the News from Chemistry

Making the transformation transparent (December 2022)
Editorial by Dr Harald Schwager Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board, Evonik Industries, Essen, in the News from the Chemical Industry

Joint forces for more sustainability (October 2022)
Contribution of the GDCh's JCF Sustainability Team to the sustainability initiatives of the young chemists in the anniversary issue "Sustainability" of CIT PLUS.

Rethinking Chemistry - Rethinking chemistry and seeing the challenges as an opportunity (July 2022)
Article by GDCh President Karsten Danielmeier on the challenges facing humanity and the chemical community in Chemanger.

Now more than ever (July 2022)
Editorial by Markus Steilemann CEO Covestro, Leverkusen, in the news from the chemical industry

"Changing the whole complex system" (May 2022)
Two large-scale research centres are to be established in Saxony as part of the structural change for the post-lignite mining era. One of the proposals on the shortlist comes from the field of chemistry: the Chemresilienz concept by Potsdam Max Planck Director Peter Seeberger. Interview in the chemistry news

Shaping the transformation together (March 2022)
Editorial by Dr Martin Brudermüller, Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of BASF, Ludwigshafen, in the News from the Chemical Industry

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Rethinking Chemistry - GDCh Science Forum (WiFo) Chemistry
3-6 September 2023, Leipzig To the report on the WiFo 2023