GREEN CHEMISTRY

摘要

YOUR COVER STORY, "PURE Chemistry" [Summer 2011], by Laura Wright Treadway, serves an important role in inspiring universities to develop green chemistry curricula. Having been a scientist at the Environmental Protection Agency for 22 years, I can say with certainty that green chemistry lies squarely at the crossroads of academic disciplines related to environmental and human-health issues. I do have one quibble, though: the article begins with a student collecting lint, presumably for analysis, and states that he sticks the wad in his pocket. This is bad science-the lint should at least be put in a plastic baggie, if not a sterile lab sample collection bag. I would hate for others to think that green chemistry is some kind of guerrilla effort that condones sloppy science.