SUBJECT

Green Chemistry

lecture

Master

Faculty of Science

Chemistry MSc

2

Semester 1

Autumn semester

Topics:

1. The rapidly increasing worldwide demand for environmentally friendly chemical products and processes requires the application of novel and cost-effective technologies to pollution prevention.

2. Green Chemistry is an emerging new approach focusing on a simple principle that it is better to prevent waste than to treat or clean up waste after it is formed.

3. The fundamentals of green chemistry.

4. The chlorine controversy.

5. Replacing toxic chemicals.

6. Alternative solvents and reaction media.

7. Selective catalysis.

8. Asymmetric synthesis.

9. Energy and the environment.

10. Population and the environment.

11. Environmental economics.

12. The environmental factor in chemical research and development management.

Compulsory:

• P.T.Anastas, J.C. Warner: Green Chemistry, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998

Suggested:

• A. S. Matlack: Introduction to Green Chemistry, CRC Press, 2010.

• G. N. Tiwari, R K. Mishra: Advanced Renewable Energy Sources, RSC Publishing, 2011.

• N. Winterton: Chemistry for Sustainable Technologies : A Foundation, RSC Publishing, 2010.