Professorship for Sustainable Chemistry and Material Resources
Organisational unit: Section
Organisation profile
RESEARCH AND TEACHING
Chair for Sustainable Chemistry and Material Resources
We research and train in the field of sustainable chemistry and pharmacy.
We focus on environmental questions as well as on sustainable questions going beyond that such as social and ecological aspects in the context of the life cycle of chemical substances and products. This includes the extraction of raw material, its use as well as the fate after its use. We are also interested in the material flow associated with the extraction and use of the raw material. On top of the experimental work and modeling, we also develop concepts as for example Benign by Design intended dissipation.
Our research and teaching is carried out on an intra- and transdisciplinary scale within the Faculty of Sustainability together with national and international co-operations.
Topics
We are interested in environmental affairs and all questions concerning the sustainability within the context of the life cycle of chemicals, starting with the raw material itself and going on to the synthesis, the use to end up with the environmental fate of chemical substances and products after their use. Beyond the chemical substances and products themselves, we are also interested in the associated material flows, especially when it comes to the so-called strategic resources (e. g. phosphate, seldom metals).
We investigate the fate (e. g. identification of relevant sources) in the environment as well as the spread and the behavior of chemicals (e. g. spread, biological and photochemical degradation) in the aquatic environment in the sense of a sustainable water management. This is why we want to record their effects (e. g. genotoxicity, mutagenity, and bacteria toxicity).At present we are focusing on pesticides, pharmaceuticals, textile auxiliary agents and nanoparticles.
Service offers
Examination of (bio)-degradability of chemicals and pharmaceuticals
according to OECD/DIN/ISO and others:
• Closed Bottle-Test (OECD 301 D)
• Manometric Respirometry (OECD 301 F)
• Zahn-Wellens-Test (OECD 302 B)
• Waste water treatment plant simulation (OECD 303 A)
• Water Sediment Test
• Photochemical degradation
• Photocatalytic degradation
• Electro coalugation
• and other
Toxicity
Acute and chronic toxicity in bacteria:
• Luminescent bacteria test with Vibrio fischeri (30 minutes and 20h)
• Growth-inhibition test with Pseudomonas putida (16h) and Vibrio fischeri (20h)
• Growth-inhibition test with Enteroccus faecalis
Genotoxicity:
• Ames-Test with Salmonella typhimurium TA 98/TA 100
• Umu-Test with Salmonella typhimurium TA 1535/ psK 1002
• Mikronucleus-Test with CHO-Cells by FACS-Analysis
• Green Screen-Assay with TK6-cells
Chemical informatics
Structure property relationships
• Calculation of physicochemical properties of molecules
• Calculation of quantum chemical parameters of molecules
• Calculation of toxicity and mutagenicity
• Calculation of the biological degradation
• Calculation of metabolites (mammalia bacteria)
• Targeted design of chemicals and pharmaceuticals
• Support in purchasing decisions
• Product optimization
• REACH
Water flux based reactive mass transport modelling and assessment
• Spatio-temporal analysis of discharge and water quality (R-Statistics, SigmaPlot, ArcGIS)
• Assessment of water quality by combined water quality and quantity indices (WQI, WQQI, WAI)
• Water quality modelling in lakes and reservoirs in 1D, 2D and 3D (LAC, MOHID Water, Ce-qual)
• Catchment modelling of hydrology, erosion and sedimenttransport, phosphorus discharge, pesticides and transformation product discharge (ZIN-Sed, MOHID Land, reservoir models)
• River channel modelling of water, sediment, phosphorus, pesticide and transformation product discharge (ZIN-Sed, MOHID Stream)
• Scenario modelling and assessment
• System analysis and management assessment
• Integrated water ressources management
Analytics
• Liquid chromatography coupled to ion trap mass spectrometry
• HPLC with UV and fluorescence detection
• Gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry
• Ion chromatography
- 2017
Benign by Design as an Important Building Block of Green and Sustainable Chemistry - Examples of its Application for Molecules, Materials, Products and the Management of Their Flows
Klaus Kümmerer (Speaker)
18.06.2017 → 22.06.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Simulation of the enviromental fate of the fungicide Penconazole and its transformation products in a vineyard-terraces catchment
Dieter Vollert (Speaker), Matthias Gassmann (Coauthor), Klaus Kümmerer (Coauthor) & Oliver Olsson (Coauthor)
18.06.2017 → 22.06.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Environmental Fate and Behavior of Transformation Products of Pesticides used in Agricultural and Urban Areas
Birte Hensen (Speaker), Oliver Olsson (Speaker) & Klaus Kümmerer (Speaker)
29.05.2017 → 03.06.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Limitations of regulatory risk assessments of chemicals
Stefanie Wieck (Speaker), Oliver Olsson (Speaker) & Klaus Kümmerer (Speaker)
29.05.2017 → 03.06.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
XVI World Water Congress 2017
Stefanie Wieck (presenter)
29.05.2017 → 03.06.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
2nd Green & Sustainable Chemistry Conference 2017
Klaus Kümmerer (Chair)
14.05.2017 → 17.05.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
2nd Green and Sustainable Conference
Elisa Grabitz (Participant) & Daniel Pleißner (Speaker)
14.05.2017 → 17.05.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
The concept of a sustainable use of biocidal active substances – applied to rodenticides
Stefanie Wieck (presenter)
14.05.2017 → 17.05.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) Europe Annual Meeting 2017
Stefanie Wieck (presenter)
07.05.2017 → 11.05.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
- 2016
Jahrestagung der GDCh-Fachgruppe “Nachhaltige Chemie” 2016
Stefanie Wieck (presenter)
19.09.2016 → 21.09.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Summer School on Sustainable Chemistry and the example of textiles 2016
Klaus Kümmerer (Organiser)
12.09.2016 → 16.09.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
SETAC Europe 26th Annual Meeting
Stefanie Wieck (presenter)
22.05.2016 → 26.05.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
1st Green & Sustainable Chemistry Conference - GSCC 2016
Klaus Kümmerer (Chair)
03.04.2016 → 06.04.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
- 2015
27. Hamburger Kolloquium zur Abwasserwirtschaft
Oliver Olsson (presenter)
30.09.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
15th International Conference on Chemistry and the Environment - EuCheMS ICCE 2015
Stefanie Wieck (presenter)
20.09.2015 → 24.09.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Identification and Assessment of Photo Transformation Products of the UV Filters Octocrylene and Ethylhexyl methoxycinnamate Present in Grey Water Intended for Water Reuse
Franziska Jentzsch (Speaker), Christoph Leder (Speaker), Oliver Olsson (Speaker), Klaus Kümmerer (Speaker) & Franziska Jentzsch (presenter)
20.09.2015 → 24.09.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Summer School on Sustainable Chemistry 2015
Klaus Kümmerer (Organiser)
14.09.2015 → 17.09.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
2nd Environmental Monitoring of Biocides in Europe - NORMAN 2015
Stefanie Wieck (Participant)
25.06.2015 → 26.06.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Einsatz der „Fracking-Technologie“ zur Erdgasgewinnung
Oliver Olsson (Lecturer)
10.06.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
25th Annual Meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry - SETAC Europe 2015
Nareman Dahshan Henedaq Khaleel (Participant)
03.05.2015 → 07.05.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
25th Annual Meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry - SETAC Europe 2015
Nareman Dahshan Henedaq Khaleel (Speaker), Oliver Olsson (Coauthor), Klaus Kümmerer (Coauthor) & Nareman Dahshan Henedaq Khaleel (presenter)
03.05.2015 → 07.05.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
25th Annual Meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry - SETAC Europe 2015
Klaus Kümmerer (Speaker)
03.05.2015 → 07.05.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Artificial sunlight photolysis of the pharmaceuticals doxepin hydrochloride, gabapentin and quetiapine hemifumarate as single compounds and as a mixture
Manuel Herrmann (presenter)
03.05.2015 → 07.05.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Assessment of the biodegradability and ecotoxicity of the anti-cancer drug Imatinib Mesylate after UV and simulated sunlight irradiation treatments
Carlos Lutterbeck (presenter)
03.05.2015 → 07.05.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Assessment of the biodegradability and ecotoxicity of the anticancer drug Imatinib Mesylate after UV and simulated sunlight irradiation treatments
Carlos Alexandre Lutterbeck (Speaker), Ewelina Baginska (Speaker) & Enio Leandro Machado (Speaker)
03.05.2015 → 07.05.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Households as important source of biocidal active substances in influents of sewage treatment plants
Stefanie Wieck (presenter)
03.05.2015 → 07.05.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
PRIORITIZATION OF VETERINARY ANTIBIOTICS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS USING A SIMPLE SCREENING APPROACH
Jakob Menz (presenter)
03.05.2015 → 07.05.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
ANAKON 2015
Waleed M. M. Mahmoud (presenter)
23.03.2015 → 26.03.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
LC-MS identification of the photo-transformation products of desipramine with studying the effect of different environmental variables on the kinetics of their formation
Nareman Dahshan Henedaq Khaleel (Speaker), Oliver Olsson (Speaker) & Klaus Kümmerer (Speaker)
23.03.2015 → 26.03.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Fachreferent/Sachverständiger "Fracking und Lagerstättenwasser": Diskussionsrunde zum Thema Fracking mit dem niedersächsischen Minister für Wirtschaft, Arbeit un Verkehr, Olaf Lies und der Landesgruppen Niedersachsen/Bremen in der SPD-Bundestagsfraktion
Oliver Olsson (Reviewer)
26.01.2015Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Transfer
Fachreferent/Sachverständiger "Lagerstättenwasser": Fachgespräch mit Umweltreferenten der Koalitionsfraktion SPD im Deutschen Bundestag zum Thema „Lagerstättenwasser“
Oliver Olsson (Reviewer)
16.01.2015Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Transfer
Erschließung unkonventioneller Lagerstätten durch „Hydraulic Fracturing“
Oliver Olsson (Lecturer)
07.01.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Deutsche Vereinigung für Wasserwirtschaft, Abwasser und Abfall e. V. (External organisation)
Oliver Olsson (Member)
2015 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Transfer
- 2014
Transformationsprodukte von Pestiziden- Entstehung, Gefährdungspotential und Umweltverhalten
Oliver Olsson (Lecturer)
08.12.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
32. Allergiesymposium der Norddeutschen Arbeitsgemeinschaft Pädiatrische Pneumologie und Allergologie e.V. - Nappa 2014
Klaus Kümmerer (presenter)
22.11.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Forum der Deutschen Phosphor-Plattform - DPP 2014
Klaus Kümmerer (presenter)
21.11.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Konferenz Nachhaltige Entwicklung – eine Frage der richtigen Chemie?
Klaus Kümmerer (Participant)
12.11.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
35th Annual Meeting of SETAC North America
Manuel Herrmann (presenter)
09.11.2014 → 13.11.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Developing the ‘Benign by Design’ Approach for a Rational Design of Green Derivatives of b -Blockers: Propranolol as an Example
Tushar Rastogi (presenter)
30.09.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Eine Podiumsdiskussion zu Fracking
Oliver Olsson (Panel participant)
30.09.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Rational Design of Green, (Bio) Degradable β Adrenergic Receptor Blocker Derivatives through Non - Targeted Synthesis: Atenolol as an Example
Klaus Kümmerer (presenter), Tushar Rastogi (presenter) & Christoph Leder (presenter)
28.09.2014 → 30.09.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
4th INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GREEN CHEMISTRY FOR ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT - GREENCHEM 2014
Klaus Kümmerer (Keynote speaker)
25.09.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Degradation-resistant antibiotics delay germination and growth of two crop plant species
Richard Bolek (Coauthor)
09.09.2014 → 13.09.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
50th Congress of the European Societies of Toxicology - EUROTOX 2014
Carlos Lutterbeck (presenter)
07.09.2014 → 10.09.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Aerobic biodegradability assessment of Cefazolin and its phototransformation products
Waleed Mohamed Mamdouh Mahmoud Ahmed (Speaker) & Klaus Kümmerer (Speaker)
31.08.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Photodegradation of chlorprothixene in aqueous medium: identification, biodegradation, and toxicity assessment of the formed transformation products
Nareman Dahshan Henedaq Khaleel (Speaker), Waleed Mohamed Mamdouh Mahmoud Ahmed (Speaker), Christoph Leder (Speaker), Oliver Olsson (Speaker) & Klaus Kümmerer (Speaker)
31.08.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
QSPR MODELS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL FATE ASSESSMENT AND PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT IN SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZED CHEMICAL COMPANIES
Waleed Mohamed Mamdouh Mahmoud Ahmed (Speaker), Christoph Leder (Speaker), Christoph Rücker (Speaker), Klaus Kümmerer (Speaker) & Dirk Schwartz (Speaker)
31.08.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
99th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America - ESA 2014
Richard Bolek (Coauthor)
13.08.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
2nd International Conference of Recycling and Reuse - R&R 2014
Manuel Herrmann (presenter)
04.06.2014 → 06.06.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Genotoxicity and ecotoxicity screening of photolytic mixtures from the selective β1-receptor blockers Atenolol and Metoprolol
Mandy Schneider (presenter)
11.05.2014 → 15.05.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research