An Approach Towards Teaching Green Chemistry Fundamentals

摘要

Waste prevention is a central component to the concept of green chemistry.From a process-chemistry perspective,this tenet has consequences not only for selection of route and reagent,but also for the use of auxiliary substances such as solvents and separation reagents (1).Because waste prevention requires a certain level of sophisticated understanding of chemistry,one way to introduce the concept of green chemistry at the undergraduate level is to begin with assessing the quantity of waste produced in a chemical process.