Anastas Warner ‘Green Chemistry

Reproduced with permission from RC. Anastas and J.C. Warner Green Chemistry Theory and Practice , Oxford University Press, New York, 1998)... 

A common definition of green chemistry, which clearly encompasses considerable chemical engineering as well, is the design, development and implementation of chemical processes and products to reduce or eliminate substances hazardous to human health and the environment, (P. T. Anastas and J. Warner, Green Chemistry Theory and Practice, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998). A more recent article expands this definition to twelve principles (M. Poliakoff, J. M. Fitzpatrick, T.R. Farren and P.T. Anastas, Science, 297, 807-810 (2002). 

P. T. Anastas, J. C, Warner, Green Chemistry, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998 Frontiers in Benign Chemical Syntheses and Processes, P. T. Anastas, T. C. Williamson, Eds. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998. 

P. T. Anastas and J. C. Warner, Green Chemistry Theory and Practice, Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford, 1998. 

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