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

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

Here you will find a collection of all posts and activities related to Rethinking Chemistry. The compilation is continuously expanded. The latest posts are at the top.

Rethinking Chemistry in Angewandte Chemie (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/anie.202311238

Virtual special issue Rethinking Chemistry (August 2023)

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

One Submission – One Tree (September 2023)

On the occasion of the science forum under the motto Rethinking Chemistry, Angewandte Chemie has launched its One Submission – One Tree initiative. From September 1, 2023 until the end of the year, a tree will be planted for each 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 Federal Employers' Association of the Chemical Industry (BAVC), in the Nachrichten aus der Chemie industry

What digitization means (February 2023)
Editorial by Prof. Dr. Jochen Maas, Executive Director Research and Development, Sanofi-Aventis Germany, in the Nachrichten aus der Chemie

Making the transformation transparent (December 2022)
Editorial by Dr. Harald Schwager Deputy Chair of the Executive Board, Evonik Industries, Essen, in the Nachrichten aus der Chemie

Joined forces for more sustainability (October 2022)
Contribution of the JCF sustainability team of the GDCh to the sustainability initiatives of the Junchemiker:innen in the anniversary issue "Sustainability" of CIT PLUS.

Rethinking Chemistry – Rethinking chemistry and seeing the challenges as opportunities (July 2022)
Contribution by GDCh President Karsten Danielmeier about the challenges that humanity and the chemical community have to face in Chemanger.

Now more than ever (July 2022)
Editorial by Markus Steilemann CEO Covestro, Leverkusen, in the Nachrichten aus der Chemie

"Changing the Whole Complex System" (May 2022)
Two large research centers are to be set up in Saxony as part of the structural change for the period after opencast lignite mining. One of the shortlisted proposals comes from chemistry: the concept of chemical resilience by the Potsdam Max Planck Director Peter Seeberger. Interview in the Nachrichten aus der Chemie

Shaping the transformation together (March 2022)
Editorial by Dr. Martin Brudermüller, CEO of BASF, Ludwigshafen, in the Nachrichten aus der Chemie