A proposed sustainability index for synthesis plans based on input provenance and output fate: application to academic and industrial synthesis plans for vanillin as a case study

• John Andraos

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2346–2362, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.196

• from biofermentation, chemical synthesis, and solvent extraction processes. In addition, these plans are compared and ranked according to Borda count and poset (partially ordered set) pairwise dominance analyses using the following attributes: process mass intensity (PMI), sacrificial reagent (SR

• ) consumption, input enthalpic energy (IEE) consumption, Rowan solvent greenness index (RSGI), and sustainability index (SI). Keywords: Borda count; green chemistry; input enthalpic energy; process mass intensity; poset dominance analysis; Rowan solvent greenness index; sacrificial reagent; sustainability

• syntheses of pharmaceutical compounds we were able to demonstrate the Borda count [21][22][23][24] and poset (partially ordered set) pairwise dominance [25] ranking algorithms based on the four attributes PMI, SR, IEE, and RSGI. In the present work, we can now add SI as a fifth key attribute as part of