ABSTRACT
Today, new and less toxic products, renewable energy sources, environmental protection, energy-efficient industrial processes, and renewable raw materials have become much more important in the context of sustainable development goals (SDGs). The main goal of green and sustainable chemistry is to design chemical products that eliminate the use of hazardous substances for humans and the environment, for a sustainable global future of the world with greater societal and environmental expectations. Green chemistry studies include rapidly developing technological innovations that offer solutions that can create a clean environment for the sustainable development of future science and technology, develop new advanced chemical processes, and produce reduced polluting wastes. With the green chemistry approach, it is possible to design synthesis procedures that do not harm the environment, to produce specific drugs, environmentally friendly agricultural chemicals and catalysts for catalytic processes, new enzymes for biocatalytic chemical processes, and innovative renewable energy sources. In addition, higher energy-efficient chemical reactions and innovative products that can reduce negative environmental impacts can be developed. This chapter discusses applications for pre-concentrating or removing various metal ions, organic and inorganic industrial pollutants, and pesticides, as well as addressing the synthesis of environmentally friendly sustainable chemical products.
