EcoScale, a semi- quantitative tool to select an organic preparation based on economical and ecological parameters

• Koen Van Aken,
• Lucjan Strekowski and
• Luc Patiny

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2006, 2, No. 3, doi:10.1186/1860-5397-2-3

• claim that this procedure for preparing primary amides starting from aryl halides is better than another procedure which uses hexamethyldisilazane (HMDS). [26] Therefore, the EcoScale for the latter procedure was also calculated to compare the two preparations. The sum of all penalty points is 68 (Table