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Combined LCA and Green Metrics Approach for the Sustainability Assessment of an Organic Dye Synthesis on Lab Scale

New generation photovoltaic devices have attracted much attention in the last decades since they can be efficiently manufactured employing abundant raw materials and with less-energy intensive processes. In this context, the use of powerful environmental assessment is pivotal to support the fine-tun...

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Autores principales: Parisi, Maria Laura, Dessì, Alessio, Zani, Lorenzo, Maranghi, Simone, Mohammadpourasl, Sanaz, Calamante, Massimo, Mordini, Alessandro, Basosi, Riccardo, Reginato, Gianna, Sinicropi, Adalgisa
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7136579/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32296679
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fchem.2020.00214
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author Parisi, Maria Laura
Dessì, Alessio
Zani, Lorenzo
Maranghi, Simone
Mohammadpourasl, Sanaz
Calamante, Massimo
Mordini, Alessandro
Basosi, Riccardo
Reginato, Gianna
Sinicropi, Adalgisa
author_facet Parisi, Maria Laura
Dessì, Alessio
Zani, Lorenzo
Maranghi, Simone
Mohammadpourasl, Sanaz
Calamante, Massimo
Mordini, Alessandro
Basosi, Riccardo
Reginato, Gianna
Sinicropi, Adalgisa
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description New generation photovoltaic devices have attracted much attention in the last decades since they can be efficiently manufactured employing abundant raw materials and with less-energy intensive processes. In this context, the use of powerful environmental assessment is pivotal to support the fine-tuning of solar cells fabrication and hit the target of manufacturing effective sustainable technological devices. In this work, a mass-based green metrics and life cycle assessment combined approach is applied to analyze the environmental performances of an innovative synthetic protocol for the preparation of organic dye TTZ5, which has been successfully proposed as sensitizer for manufacturing dye sensitized solar cells. The new synthetic strategy, which is based on the C-H activation process, has been compared with the previously reported synthesis employing classic Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling chemistry. Results highlight the contribution of direct energy consumption and purification operations in organic syntheses at lab scale. Furthermore, they demonstrate the usefulness of the environmental multifaceted analytic tool and the power of life cycle assessment to overcome the intrinsic less comprehensive nature of green metrics for the evaluation of organic synthetic protocols.
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spelling pubmed-71365792020-04-15 Combined LCA and Green Metrics Approach for the Sustainability Assessment of an Organic Dye Synthesis on Lab Scale Parisi, Maria Laura Dessì, Alessio Zani, Lorenzo Maranghi, Simone Mohammadpourasl, Sanaz Calamante, Massimo Mordini, Alessandro Basosi, Riccardo Reginato, Gianna Sinicropi, Adalgisa Front Chem Chemistry New generation photovoltaic devices have attracted much attention in the last decades since they can be efficiently manufactured employing abundant raw materials and with less-energy intensive processes. In this context, the use of powerful environmental assessment is pivotal to support the fine-tuning of solar cells fabrication and hit the target of manufacturing effective sustainable technological devices. In this work, a mass-based green metrics and life cycle assessment combined approach is applied to analyze the environmental performances of an innovative synthetic protocol for the preparation of organic dye TTZ5, which has been successfully proposed as sensitizer for manufacturing dye sensitized solar cells. The new synthetic strategy, which is based on the C-H activation process, has been compared with the previously reported synthesis employing classic Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling chemistry. Results highlight the contribution of direct energy consumption and purification operations in organic syntheses at lab scale. Furthermore, they demonstrate the usefulness of the environmental multifaceted analytic tool and the power of life cycle assessment to overcome the intrinsic less comprehensive nature of green metrics for the evaluation of organic synthetic protocols. Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-03-31 /pmc/articles/PMC7136579/ /pubmed/32296679 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fchem.2020.00214 Text en Copyright © 2020 Parisi, Dessì, Zani, Maranghi, Mohammadpourasl, Calamante, Mordini, Basosi, Reginato and Sinicropi. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Chemistry
Parisi, Maria Laura
Dessì, Alessio
Zani, Lorenzo
Maranghi, Simone
Mohammadpourasl, Sanaz
Calamante, Massimo
Mordini, Alessandro
Basosi, Riccardo
Reginato, Gianna
Sinicropi, Adalgisa
Combined LCA and Green Metrics Approach for the Sustainability Assessment of an Organic Dye Synthesis on Lab Scale
title Combined LCA and Green Metrics Approach for the Sustainability Assessment of an Organic Dye Synthesis on Lab Scale
title_full Combined LCA and Green Metrics Approach for the Sustainability Assessment of an Organic Dye Synthesis on Lab Scale
title_fullStr Combined LCA and Green Metrics Approach for the Sustainability Assessment of an Organic Dye Synthesis on Lab Scale
title_full_unstemmed Combined LCA and Green Metrics Approach for the Sustainability Assessment of an Organic Dye Synthesis on Lab Scale
title_short Combined LCA and Green Metrics Approach for the Sustainability Assessment of an Organic Dye Synthesis on Lab Scale
title_sort combined lca and green metrics approach for the sustainability assessment of an organic dye synthesis on lab scale
topic Chemistry
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7136579/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32296679
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fchem.2020.00214
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