Green Organic Chemistry and its Interdisciplinary Applications

Green Organic Chemistry and Its Interdisciplinary Applications covers key developments in green chemistry and demonstrates to students that the developments were most often the result of innovative thinking. Using a set of selected experiments, all of which have been performed in the laboratory with undergraduate students, it demonstrates how to optimize and develop green experiments. The book dedicates each chapter to individual applications, such as Engineering The chemical industry The pharmaceutical industry Analytical chemistry Environmental chemistry Each chapter also poses questions at the end, with the answers included. By focusing on both the interdisciplinary applications of green chemistry and the innovative thinking that has produced new developments in the field, this book manages to present two key messages in a manner where they reinforce each other. It provides a single and concise reference for chemists, instructors, and students for learning about green organic chemistry and its great and ever-expanding number of applications.

Introduction to Green ChemistryLearning ObjectivesA Brief History of Green ChemistrySome Common Descriptions of Green ChemistryInnovative Aspects of Green ChemistryReview QuestionsAnswers to Review QuestionsReferencesTwelve Principles of Green ChemistryLearning ObjectivesIntroductionThe 12 Principles of Green ChemistryReview QuestionsAnswers to Review QuestionsReferencesInnovative Aspects of Green ChemistryLearning ObjectivesAbout Innovation in General and in Green ChemistryAbout Thinking in General and for the Green Chemistry InnovationsExamples of Innovations in Green ChemistryReview QuestionsAnswers to Review QuestionsReferencesGreen Organic Reactions "on Water"Learning ObjectivesTypes of Reactions in the Aqueous Medium and the Associated NomenclatureExamples of on Water ReactionsReview QuestionsAnswers to Review QuestionsReferencesGreen Organic Reactions in Superheated WaterLearning ObjectivesAbout Water: A Brief ReviewSuperheated Water as a Green Reaction MediumOrganic Reactions in Superheated Water: An OverviewReview QuestionsAnswers to Review QuestionsReferencesGreen "Solventless" Organic ReactionsLearning ObjectivesAnother Green Chemistry Paradigm Shift: Organic Reactions May Not Need a Solvent to OccurDefinition of Solventless Reactions and the Related NomenclatureSolventless Reactions That Are Based on the Melting Behavior of the Reaction Mixtures: Innovative Aspects of This MethodA New Look at the Familiar Concepts of Melting Point and Eutectic Point, and Their Relevant Phase DiagramsGreen Chemistry Challenges with Respect to the Solventless ReactionsExamples of Solventless ReactionsReview QuestionsAnswers to Review QuestionsReferencesGreen Organic Reactions in the Solid StateLearning ObjectivesSolid-State Reactions Other Than Those That Occur via the Melted StateSolid-State Photochemical ReactionsMicrowave-Assisted Solid-State ReactionsRearrangement Reactions in the Solid StateSynthetic Scope of the Solid-State ReactionsReview QuestionsAnswers to Review QuestionsReferencesApplications of Green Chemistry Principles in EngineeringLearning ObjectivesEngineering and Its BranchesGreen Engineering and Its 12 PrinciplesComparison of Principles of Green Chemistry and Green EngineeringSustainability as Related to Green EngineeringTypes of Thinking That Are Useful in Green Engineering: Systems and Holistic ThinkingConclusionsReview QuestionsAnswers to Review QuestionsReferencesChemical Industry and Its GreeningLearning ObjectivesIntroduction: Scope of Chemical Industry and the Objectives of This ChapterProducts of Polymer IndustryTypes of Polymers Affect Polymer PropertiesGreening of the Chemical IndustryGreen Chemistry MetricsSummaryReview QuestionsAnswers to Review QuestionsReferencesApplications of Green Chemistry Principles in the Pharmaceutical IndustryLearning ObjectivesAn Introduction to the Pharmaceutical IndustryPharmaceutical Industry Often Has Difficulties in Meeting Green Chemistry GoalsGreening of the Pharmaceutical IndustryReview QuestionsAnswers to Review QuestionsReferencesApplications of Green Chemistry Principles in Analytical ChemistryLearning ObjectivesApplication of the 12 Principles of Green Chemistry to Analytical ChemistryGreen Analytical Chemistry and Its Specialized Green PrinciplesGreening of Analytical ChemistrySummaryReview QuestionsAnswers to Review QuestionsReferencesApplication of Green Chemistry Principles in Environmental ChemistryLearning ObjectivesA Brief Overview of the Objectives of Environmental ChemistryRelationship between the Environmental and Green ChemistryPharmaceuticals as Emerging Environmental PollutantsDevelopment of Ecofriendly Chemicals in Response to the Findings of Environmental ChemistryReview QuestionsAnswers to Review QuestionsReferencesGreening Undergraduate Organic Laboratory ExperimentsLearning ObjectivesA Brief Survey of the Literature Sources on Green Organic Laboratory ExperimentsSelected Methods of Greening Organic Laboratory ExperimentsReview QuestionsAnswers to Review QuestionsReferences

Vera M. Kolb received a chemical engineering degree and an MS in chemistry from Belgrade University, and her PhD from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. She is currently a professor of chemistry and the director of the Center for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Parkside. She had two sabbatical leaves, one at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and the other at Northwestern University. She has over 150 publications, including two books and three patents, on range of subjects that includes organic reactions and mechanisms, morphine-type opiates and their receptors, estrogens, nucleosides, teratogens, organic reactions in water and in the solid state, chemistry under prebiotic conditions, astrobiology, and chemical education. In 2002 she was inducted in the Southeastern Wisconsin Educators’ Hall of Fame, and in 2013 she received the Phi Delta Kappa Outstanding Educator Award.