Green Chemistry Education: Recent Developments

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 220
• Series: Green Chemical Processing; 4
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The “greening” of industry processes, i.e. making them more sustainable, is a popular and often lucrative trend which has emerged over recent years. The 4^th volume of Green Chemical Processing considers sustainable chemistry in the context of education and explores didactic approached. The American Chemical Society’s 12 Principles of Green Chemistry are woven throughout this text as well as the series to which this book belongs.

• Explores topics in Green Chemistry from an educational perspective.
• Considers the ecological and economical costs and benefits of chemistry research.
• Written by internationally renowned experts from both industry and academia.

✦ Table of Contents

About the series
Preface: the continuum of green chemical education
Contents
List of Contributing authors
1. Green chemistry and the grand challenges of sustainability
2. Invasive species or sustainable water filters? A student-led laboratory investigation into locally sourced biomass-based adsorbents for sustainable water treatment
3. Recent advances in the application of carbohydrates as renewable feedstocks for the synthesis of nitrogen-containing compounds
4. The environmental fate of synthetic organic chemicals
5. Synthesis of “three-legged” tri-dentate podand ligands incorporating long-chain aliphatic moieties, for water remediators, and for isolating metal ions in non-aqueous solution
6. An introductory course in green chemistry: Progress and lessons learned
7. Introduction to cheminformatics for green chemistry education
8. Green chemistry outreach
9. The development of a bioenergy-based green chemistry curriculum for high schools
10. Green chemistry in secondary school
Index