Sustainability in the lab starts with the right solvent. We just made solvent selection and replacement a data-driven decision.

Sustainability in the lab starts with the right solvent. We just made solvent selection and replacement a data-driven decision.

Solvents are everywhere in chemistry - and so is the pressure to make them greener. 

But replacing a solvent isn't just a sustainability checkbox. 

It's a physicochemical challenge. 

The replacement needs to behave like the original: same solubility profile, same process compatibility, same performance.

That tension - between green and functional - is exactly what we set out to solve.

At ReactWise, we build tools that bring data-driven decision making to experimental chemistry, and our new Solvent Selection Tool is the latest example.

Our new Solvent Selection Tool lets you define your origin solvent and proposes single solvent replacements or binary mixtures that match your target physicochemical properties, ranked alongside a greenness score. 

The result: candidates that have similar characteristics on all angles - and also greener.

No more manual trawling through solvent databases. 

No more relying purely on intuition or literature precedent. 

Just a structured, transparent, data-driven path from a solvent you want to replace to one you can feel confident using.

Because going green in the lab shouldn't mean starting from scratch.

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