What does green chemistry look like?
July 13, 2008
When people ask me what my research interests are, I often say, “Green Chemistry.” Then they usually ask me what that means and I’m (temporarily) stuck for an answer because green chemistry is such a broad field. This breadth is neatly reflected in a recent issue of Chemical Review ( Volume 107, Issue 6, June 13, 2007) which contains 21 separate articles on different aspects of green chemistry, including doing chemical reactions in water and liquified CO2, new types of catalysts, new efficient energy sources like microwaves and sunlight, designing materials for enhanced biodegradability, and using biomolecules as reagents and catalysts. If you have time for only one article, I recommend “Innovations and Green Chemistry” by Horvath and Anastas for its nice summary of contemporary green chemistry.
Here is a complete list of article titles and links.
- Introduction: Green Chemistry
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/cr0783784 - Innovations and Green Chemistry
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/cr078380v - Green Chemistry Considerations in Entropic Control of Materials and Processes
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/cr0509455 - Design of Sustainable Chemical Products-The Example of Ionic Liquids
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/cr050942s - Designing Small Molecules for Biodegradability
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/cr050952t - Toward Greener Nanosynthesis
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/cr050943k - “Green” Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization: From Process Design to Preparation of Well-Defined Environmentally Friendly Polymeric Materials
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/cr050947p - Greener Approaches to Organic Synthesis Using Microreactor Technology
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/cr050944c - Human Pharmaceuticals in the Aquatic Environment: A Challenge to Green Chemistry
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/cr020441w - Transformation of Carbon Dioxide
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/cr068357u - Making Plastics from Carbon Dioxide: Salen Metal Complexes as Catalysts for the Production of Polycarbonates from Epoxides and CO2
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/cr068363q - Chemical Routes for the Transformation of Biomass into Chemicals
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/cr050989d - A Green Chemistry Approach to Asymmetric Catalysis: Solvent-Free and Highly Concentrated Reactions
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/cr0509556 - Reactions of C-H Bonds in Water
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/cr050980b - Microwave-Assisted Synthesis in Water as Solvent
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/cr0509410 - Lanthanides and Actinides in Ionic Liquids
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/cr050979c - Catalysis in Ionic Liquids
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/cr050948h - Gas-Expanded Liquids
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/cr040199o - Green Analytical Methodologies
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/cr068359e - Heterogeneous Gold-Based Catalysis for Green Chemistry: Low-Temperature CO Oxidation and Propene Oxidation
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/cr050954d - Photocatalysis for the Formation of the C-C Bond
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/cr068352x - Biocatalysis in Ionic Liquids
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/cr050946x - Biocatalysis in Supercritical Fluids, in Fluorous Solvents, and under Solvent-Free Conditions
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/cr0683820
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