Green Chemical Syntheses and Processes: No.767 (ACS Symposium S.) - Hardcover

Anastas, Paul T.; Bartlett, Lauren; Williamson, T.C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 084123678X ISBN 13: 9780841236783

Publisher: American Chemical Society, 2000

Synopsis

There have been a number of recent advances in the area of green chemistry. This book contains some of the notable breakthroughs that have marked this science that is designed to reduce or eliminate the use and generation of hazardous substances. It addresses how recent advances in biocatalysis and biosynthesis can be used to make traditional chemical transformations more environmentally benign or, alternately, how it is inventing and discovering new chemical transformations that are intrinsically less hazardous. The new uses of known solvent systems as well as the exploration of new solvent systems are discussed in the context of its benefits both in terms of efficiency and environmental benefit. The area of designing safer chemicals provides some recent examples of how molecules as diverse as pesticides and dyes can be made more environmentally benign. The volume is part of a two-volume set devoted to promoting the concept of green chemistry. Each of these volumes aims to facilitate more widespread adoptions of these techniques by governments and chemical industry and lead to a greater overall understanding of green chemistry.

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"Present innovations that have been developed recently in the emerging area of green chemistry, defined as the design of chemical products and processes that reduce or eliminate the use and generation of hazardous substances. The 24 papers discuss new products with safer and more benign impacts over their life-cycle, chemical reactions which utilize more environmentally benign reagents or are conducted in more benign reaction media, biocatalysis and biosynthesis, environmentally benign catalysis, and green solvent systems. Topics include iron-complexed textile dyes, metal-mediated reactions in water, biocatalytic production of 5-cyanovaleramide from adiponitrile, photo-oxidation of toluene in cation-exchanged zeolites, and supercritical fluids as solvent replacements in chemical synthesis."--SciTech Book News "Present innovations that have been developed recently in the emerging area of green chemistry, defined as the design of chemical products and processes that reduce or eliminate the use and generation of hazardous substances. The 24 papers discuss new products with safer and more benign impacts over their life-cycle, chemical reactions which utilize more environmentally benign reagents or are conducted in more benign reaction media, biocatalysis and biosynthesis, environmentally benign catalysis, and green solvent systems. Topics include iron-complexed textile dyes, metal-mediated reactions in water, biocatalytic production of 5-cyanovaleramide from adiponitrile, photo-oxidation of toluene in cation-exchanged zeolites, and supercritical fluids as solvent replacements in chemical synthesis."--SciTech Book News "Present innovations that have been developed recently in the emerging area of green chemistry, defined as the design of chemical products and processes that reduce or eliminate the use and generation of hazardous substances. The 24 papers discuss new products with safer and more benign impacts over their life-cycle, chemical reactions which utilize more environmentally benign reagents or are conducted in more benign reaction media, biocatalysis and biosynthesis, environmentally benign catalysis, and green solvent systems. Topics include iron-complexed textile dyes, metal-mediated reactions in water, biocatalytic production of 5-cyanovaleramide from adiponitrile, photo-oxidation of toluene in cation-exchanged zeolites, and supercritical fluids as solvent replacements in chemical synthesis."--SciTech Book News "Present innovations that have been developed recently in the emerging area of green chemistry, defined as the design of chemical products and processes that reduce or eliminate the use and generation of hazardous substances. The 24 papers discuss new products with safer and more benign impacts overtheir life-cycle, chemical reactions which utilize more environmentally benign reagents or are conducted in more benign reaction media, biocatalysis and biosynthesis, environmentally benign catalysis, and green solvent systems. Topics include iron-complexed textile dyes, metal-mediated reactions inwater, biocatalytic production of 5-cyanovaleramide from adiponitrile, photo-oxidation of toluene in cation-exchanged zeolites, and supercritical fluids as solvent replacements in chemical synthesis."--SciTech Book News

Edition details

• Publisher: American Chemical Society
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 084123678X
• ISBN 13: 9780841236783
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304