The shift towards being as environmentally-friendly as possible has resulted in the need for this important reference on the topic of designing safer chemicals. Edited by the leading international experts in the field, this volume covers such topics as toxicity, reducing hazards and biochemical pesticides.
An essential resource for anyone wishing to gain an understanding of the world of green chemistry, as well as for chemists, environmental agencies and chemical engineers.
Table of Content
DESIGNING SAFER CHEMICALS
The Design of Safer Chemicals: Past, Present, and Future Perspectives
Differential Toxicity Characterization of Green Alternative Chemicals
Understanding Mechanisms of Metabolic Transformations as a Tool for Designing Safer Chemicals
Structural and Toxic Mechanism-Based Approaches to Designing Safer Chemicals
Informing Substitution to Safer Alternatives
Design of Safer Chemicals –
Ionic Liquids
Designing Safer Organocatalysts –
What Lessons Can Be Learned When the Rebirth of an Old Research Area Coincides with the Advent of Green Chemistry?
Life-Cycle Concepts for Sustainable Use of Engineered Nanomaterials in Nanoproducts
Drugs
Greener Chelating Agents
Improvements to the Environmental Performance of Synthetic-Based Drilling Muds
Biochemical Pesticides: Green Chemistry Designs by Nature
Property-Based Approaches to Design Rules for Reduced Toxicity
Reducing Carcinogenicity and Mutagenicity Through Mechanism-Based Molecular Design of Chemicals
Reducing Ecotoxicity
Designing for Non-Persistence
Reducing Physical Hazards: Encouraging Inherently Safer Production
Interaction of Chemicals with the Endocrine System
About the author
Paul T. Anastas joined Yale University as Professor and iserves as the Director of the Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering at Yale. From 2004-2006, Paul Anastas has been the Director of the Green Chemistry Institute in Washington, D.C. Until June of 2004 he served as Assistant Director for Environment at e White House Office of Science and Technology Policy where his responsibilities included a wide range of environmental science issues including furthering international public-private cooperation in areas of Science for Sustainability such as Green Chemistry. In 1991, he established the industry-government-university partnership Green Chemistry Program, which was expanded to include basic research, and the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards. He has published and edited several books in the field of Green Chemistry and developed the 12 principles of Green Chemistry.
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