Handbook of Green Chemistry, Part 3: Green Processes (3-Volume Set)

About this book

This handbook supplies the one-stop reference for everything readers need to know about green chemistry. Edited by Paul Anastas, the inventor of the twelve principles of green chemistry, the work covers topics like solvents and separations. With top international expert contributors, it presents the essential set of innovative scientific solutions to real-world environmental situations.

Contents

GREEN PROCESSES
- Green Synthesis
- Green Nanoscience
- Designing Safer Chemicals

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Biography

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.