Designing safer chemicals :  green chemistry for pollution prevention / 
edited by Stephen C. DeVito and Roger L. Garrett. 
 - Washington, D.C. :  American Chemical Society,  c1996. 
 - x, 254 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm.  
 - ACS symposium series ;  640 .
<br/><br/> "Developed from a symposium sponsored by the Division of Environmental Chemistry, Inc." [at the 208th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society held in Washington, D.C., in 1994]. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 
<br/><br/>Overview -- Pollution prevention, green chemistry, and the design of safer chemicals / Roger L. Garrett -- General principles for the design of safer chemicals: toxicological considerations for chemists / Stephen C. DeVito -- Methods -- Cancer risk reduction through mechanism-based molecular design of chemicals / David Y. Lai, Yin-tak Woo, Mary F. Argus and Joseph C. Arcos -- Isosteric replacement of carbon with silicon in the design of safer chemicals / Scott McN. Sieburth -- Design of biologically safer chemicals based on retrometabolic concepts / Nicholas Bodor -- Predicting rates of cytochrome-P450-mediated bioactivation and its application to the design of safer chemicals / Jeffrey P. Jones -- Use of computers in toxicology and chemical design / G. W. A. Milne, S. Wang and V. Fung -- Designing biodegradable chemicals / R. S. Boethling -- Designing aquatically safer chemicals / Larry D. Newsome, J. Vincent Nabholz and Anne Kim --  Applications and examples -- Designing safer nitriles / Stephen C. DeVito -- Designing an environmentally safe marine antifoulant / G. L. Willingham and A. H. Jacobson -- Imine-isocyanate chemistry: new technology for environmentally friendly, high-solids coatings / Douglas A. Wicks and Philip E. Yeske. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0841234434 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>96024785 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Green chemistry--Congresses.<br/>Environmental management--Congresses.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>660