Synopses & Reviews
Sustainable development is now accepted as a necessary goal for achieving societal, economic and environmental objectives. Within this chemistry has a vital role to play. The chemical industry is successful but traditionally success has come at a heavy cost to the environment. The challenge for chemists and others is to develop new products, processes and services that achieve societal, economic and environmental benefits. This requires an approach that reduces the materials and energy intensity of chemical processes and products; minimises the dispersion of harmful chemicals in the environment; maximises the use of renewable resources and extends the durability and recyclability of products in a way that increases industrial competitiveness as well as improve its tarnished image.
This highly practical and rigorous book brings together reviews on the important aspects of green chemistry and technology, and is written by a team of world-renowned chemists spearheaded by leaders in the field.
Review
'The editors, who are also the editors of Green Chemistry Journal have done an outstanding job in getting a group of distinguished authors to contribute to this excellent text.'
Trevor Laird, Organic Process R & D
About the Author
James Clark is Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Green Chemistry Network and former industrialist.
Duncan Macquarrie is now a Royal Society University Research Fellow at the University of York.
Table of Contents
Contributors; Preface; Introduction; Principles of sustainable and green chemistry; Chemistry and the environment; Green chemistry and sustainable development; Life cycle assessment: A tool for identification of more sustainable products and processes; Industrial processes using solid acid catalysts; Micelle templated silicas as catalysts in green chemistry; Polymer-supported reagents; Biocatalysis; Recent advances in phase transfer catalysis; Hydrogen peroxide in waste minimisation - current and potential contributions; Waste minimisation in pharmaceutical process development: Principles, practice and challenges; Green catalysts for industry; Green chemistry in practice; Process intensification for green chemistry; Sonochemistry; Applications of microwaves for environmentally benign organic chemistry; Photochemistry; Electrochemistry and sustainability; Fuel cells: a clean energy technology for the future; Supercritical carbon dioxide as an environmentally benign reaction medium for chemical synthesis; Chemistry in fluorous biphasic systems; Extraction of natural products with superheated water; Index