ABSTRACT

The book covers traditional green chemistry topics, including catalysis, benign solvents, and alternative feedstocks. It also discusses relevant but less frequently covered topics with chapters such as Chemistry of Longer Wear and Population and the Environment. This coverage highlights the importance of chemistry to everyday life and demonstrates the benefits the expanded exploitation of green chemistry can have for society. Copiously illustrated with over 800 figures, this second edition provides an update from the frontiers of the field.

chapter 1|26 pages

Introduction

chapter 3|24 pages

The Chlorine Controversy

chapter 4|34 pages

Toxic Heavy-Metal Ions

chapter 6|42 pages

Solid Acids and Bases

chapter 7|28 pages

Chemical Separations

chapter 8|46 pages

Working without Organic Solvents

chapter 9|52 pages

Biocatalysis and Biodiversity

chapter 10|32 pages

Stereochemistry

chapter 11|42 pages

Agrochemicals

chapter 12|32 pages

Materials for a Sustainable Economy

chapter 13|22 pages

Chemistry of Long Wear

chapter 14|36 pages

Chemistry of Recycling

chapter 15|40 pages

Energy and the Environment

chapter 16|16 pages

Population and the Environment

chapter 17|20 pages

Environmental Economics

chapter 18|22 pages

Greening