Green Chemistry environments

As time passes and our awareness of our global environment increases, the world s populace becomes acutely cognizant of the detrimental effects resulting from human endeavors. Incorporated into its assessment of the success of its chemical activities, an environmental barometer will demonstrate the commitment of chemistry to the environment. Green chemistry has as its aim to conduct its chemical activities in such a way as to minimize the generation of waste and to continually increase the beneficial environmental effects relative to previous practices. 

Advances in Fluorine Science is a new book series presenting critical multidisciplinary overviews on areas in which fluorine and fluoride compounds have a decisive impact. The individual volumes of Advances in Fluorine Science are thematic, addressing comprehensively both the science and applications on topics including the Environment, Green chemistry, Medicine, Health Life Sciences, New Technologies Materials Science, Energy and the Earth Sciences. 

The welfare of the people who work with chemical products and processes is at least as important as the welfare of the environment. Green chemistry is anthropocentric (as is sustainable development). Several green chemistry principles reflect this anthropocentrism. Principles 3 (less-hazardous chemical synthesis), 4 (design of safer chemicals), 5 (safer solvents and auxiliaries), and 12 (inherently safer chemistry for accident prevention) express concern for the health of the people who handle materials or attend to processes (Anastas and Warner, 1998). While many of these safety benefits also accrue to nonhuman organisms, the focus of the principles is on the people who are exposed to these materials and methods. Inasmuch as we cannot know all of the environmental needs of nonhuman things, it is hard to imagine how the focus could be on anything else. 

Green chemistry is an initiative that promotes the design and application of chemical products and processes that are compatible with human health and that preserve the environment. Green chemistry rests on a set of 12 principles ... 

A major concern with regard to sustainability is the release of hazardous substances into the environment. Green chemistry can have a significant impact in this area. Solvents, for example, are ubiquitous in academic, industrial, and government laboratories. In the chemical process, industrial solvents are used in various process operation steps, such as... 

Green is the color of chlorophyll it is also the color of money. For some countries it is associated with a political party, for others it may be everything that is beneficial to the environment. Green chemistry is not a new branch of chanistry or about the chemistry of molds, leaves, or plants. It is apolitical and is rather the new color of science. It is cleaner, smarter, and cheaper chanistry. 

Green chemistry is distinct from environmental chonistry. The latter focuses on understanding the natural environment, the interactions of chemicals in the ecosystem, and, ultimately, the nature and fate of pollutants within the environment. Environmental chemistry leads to an understanding of the interactions of chmnical species in the environment green chemistry emphasizes minimizing the addition of undesired species into the ecosystem. 

Chase, V. (1995). Green chemistry The middle way to a cleaner environment. R D Magazine, 25-26. 

A newly emerging concern of chemistry is sustainable development, the economical utilization and renewal of resources coupled with hazardous waste reduction and concern for the environment. This sensitive approach to the environment and our planetary inheritance is known colloquially as green chemistry. Where we s think it appropriate to draw your attention to this important development, we dis- I ( play the small icon shown here in the margin. 

Khetan SK, Collins TJ (2007) Human pharmaceuticals in the aquatic environment a challenge to green chemistry. Chem Rev 107 2319-2364... 

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