Green chemistry : designing chemistry for the environment / edited by Paul T. Anastas and Tracy C. Williamson.

Contributor(s): Anastas, Paul T, 1962- | Williamson, Tracy C, 1963- | American Chemical Society. Division of Environmental Chemistry | American Chemical Society. Meeting ((208th : 1994 : Washington, D.C.).

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BookSeries: ACS symposium series ; 626.Publisher: Washington, D.C. : American Chemical Society, 1996Description: xii, 251 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0841233993 .Subject(s): Green chemistry -- Congresses

| Environmental management -- Congresses

DDC classification: 660.281

Contents:

Alternative feedstocks and starting materials -- Alternative syntheses and reagents -- Alternative reaction conditions -- Biotechnology -- Educational tools.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Presents the alternative environmentally benign syntheses and processes for chemical manufacturing. Introduces green chemistry technologies, including biotechnology for pollution prevention. Presents alternative environmentally benign reaction conditions for chemical manufacturing. Discusses the use of catalysis for pollution prevention.

"Developed from a symposium sponsored by the Division of Environmental Chemistry, Inc., at the 208th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, August 21-25, 1994.".

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Alternative feedstocks and starting materials -- Alternative syntheses and reagents -- Alternative reaction conditions -- Biotechnology -- Educational tools.

Reviews provided by Syndetics

CHOICE Review

Green Chemistry brings to the discussion table a very timely issue. It focuses on recently developed alternate design and manufacturing of chemical processes and products routinely used in the chemical industry. These new processes and syntheses of chemicals are environmentally friendly; i.e., they have little or no pollution potential or environmental risk and are both economically and technologically feasible. This is important because the US chemical industry releases more than 3 billion tons of chemical wastes and 30 billion pounds of chemicals, as tracked by EPA, into the environment each year, and then spends $150 billion in waste treatment, control, and disposal. Alternate feedstocks and starting materials are reviewed in such important areas as the generation of organic isocyanates, polycarbonates, and catalysts; the reduction of VOCs in spray painting; and the use of dimethyl carbonate and supercritical carbon dioxide as solvents. Author, subject, and affiliation indexes. Graduates; researchers and faculty; professionals and practitioners. A. S. Casparian Wentworth Institute of Technology