Analytical chemistry green innovations

The application of green chemistry rules in the design of new analytical methods is the key to diminishing the adverse effects of analytical chemistry on the environment. The same ingenuity and innovation that were applied earlier to obtain excellent sensitivity, precision, and accuracy are now invoked to reduce or eliminate the application of hazardous substances in analysis. 

Stricter environmental control and effective process monitoring have created considerable demands for innovative analytical methodologies. For meeting the requirements of green analytical chemistry, new devices and procedures with negligible waste generation or no hazardous substances, and in situ real-time monitoring capability, are needed. 

It is still in the early days for green analytical chemistry education. Analytical chemists have made significant innovations in greening procedures, giving analytical chemists more choices of greener methods, which are slowly... 

This volume details how chemists from all over the world are using their creativity and innovation to develop new synthetic methods, reaction conditions, analytical tools, catalysts and processes under the new paradigm of Green Chemistry. It is a challenge for the chemistry community to look at the excellent work that has been and continues to be done and to ask the question, "Is the chemistry I am doing the most benign that I can make it ". 

There is no doubt that over the past 20 years, the chemistry community, and in particular, the chemical industry, has made extensive efforts to reduce the risk associated with the manufacture and use of various chemicals. There have been innovative chemistries developed to treat chemical wastes and remediate hazardous waste sites. New monitoring and analytical tools have been developed for detecting contamination in air, water and soils. New handling procedures and containment technologies have been developed to minimize exposure. While these areas are laudable efforts in the reduction of risk, they are not pollution prevention or Green... 

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