- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- 1 The Problem with Chemicals
- I Chemical Control Policies
- 2 Regulating Hazardous Chemicals
- 3 Reassessing Chemical Control Policies
- II Reframing Chemical Policies
- 4 Considering New Initiatives
- 5 Reframing the Chemicals Problem
- 6 Understanding the Chemical Economy
- III A Chemical Conversion Strategy
- 7 Driving the Chemical Market
- 8 Transforming the Chemical Industry
- 9 Designing Greener Chemistry
- IV Safer Chemical Policies
- 10 Characterizing and Prioritizing Chemicals
- 11 Generating Chemical Information
- 12 Substituting Safer Chemicals
- 13 Developing Safer Alternatives
- 14 Drafting Safer Chemical Policies
- V Chemicals without Harm
- 15 Reconstructing Government Capacity
- 16 Solving the Chemicals Problem
- Bibliography
- Index
- Urban and Industrial Environments
Designing Greener Chemistry
Designing Greener Chemistry
- Chapter:
- (p.181) 9 Designing Greener Chemistry
- Source:
- Chemicals without Harm
- Author(s):
Ken Geiser
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
The green chemistry movement that emerged among academic and applied chemists during the 1990s has grown into a significant international force for change within the field of chemistry. Green chemistry innovations are emerging in green reagents, alternative solvents, low-waste reactions, aqueous processing, biocatalysts, energy-conserving processes, safer chemical products, chemicals from renewable feedstocks, and chemicals modelled on natural systems. However, the chemical industry has been slow to embrace this new approach to chemistry and there has been little movement on the basic platform chemicals of the industry.
Keywords: Green chemistry, biocatalysts, green reagents, inherently safer design, chemicals from renewable feedstocks, low-waste reactions, green engineering, biomimicry, chemistry education
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- 1 The Problem with Chemicals
- I Chemical Control Policies
- 2 Regulating Hazardous Chemicals
- 3 Reassessing Chemical Control Policies
- II Reframing Chemical Policies
- 4 Considering New Initiatives
- 5 Reframing the Chemicals Problem
- 6 Understanding the Chemical Economy
- III A Chemical Conversion Strategy
- 7 Driving the Chemical Market
- 8 Transforming the Chemical Industry
- 9 Designing Greener Chemistry
- IV Safer Chemical Policies
- 10 Characterizing and Prioritizing Chemicals
- 11 Generating Chemical Information
- 12 Substituting Safer Chemicals
- 13 Developing Safer Alternatives
- 14 Drafting Safer Chemical Policies
- V Chemicals without Harm
- 15 Reconstructing Government Capacity
- 16 Solving the Chemicals Problem
- Bibliography
- Index
- Urban and Industrial Environments
