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"When the Nobel Prize Committee recognized the importance of green chemistry with its 2005 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, this relatively new science came into its own. Although no concerted agreement has been reached yet about the exact content and limits of this interdisciplinary discipline, there seems to be increasing interest in environmental topics that are based on the chemistry embodied in this subject. Linking green chemistry practice to environmental sustainability, Green Chemistry for Environmental Sustainability illustrates the efforts being made to remediate a scathed environment into a pristine one." "Eminent international experts present research on and the application of green chemistry and engineering in addressing current issues of an environmental and social nature. They cover sustainable development and environmental sustainability with chapters on green chemistry and engineering research; the design and synthesis of environmentally benign chemical processes; green approaches to minimize and/or remediate environmental pollution; the development of biomaterials, biofuel, and bioenergy production; biocatalysis; and policies and ethics in green chemistry. The book also explores economics, environmentally benign technologies for greener processes, computational methods and modeling, and green approaches to minimize air and water." "Green chemistry has brought a relatively prompt and positive paradigm shift in the overall use and management of natural resources and raw materials for the development of society with a subtle promise to cause far less pronounced harm to the environment. This text provides insight into the chemical and biochemical technologies that are being studied, optimized, and eventually developed to promote environmental sustainability. It provides up-to-date information on selected fields where the principles of green chemistry are being embraced for safeguarding and improving the quality of the environment."--Jacket. Green chemistry and engineering : a versatile research perspective / Sanjay K. Sharma, Ackmez Mudhoo, and Wei Zhang -- Aliphatic nitrocompounds as versatile building blocks for the one-pot processes / Roberto Ballini, Serena Gabrielli, and Alessandro Palmieri -- Smart biomaterials : decontamination of toxic metals from wastewater -- a green approach / Pritee Goyal and Shalini Srivastava -- Opportunities and challenges for enzymatic surface modification of synthetic polymers / Vikash Babu [and others] -- Green chemistry as an expression of environmental ethics / George D. Bennett -- Phytoremediation of arsenic-contaminated environment : an overview / Ackmez Mudhoo [and others] -- Influence of nitrates from agricultural mineral fertilizers on erythrocyte antioxidant systems in infants / Catalina Pisoschi [and others] -- Microwave-assisted organic reactions / Abdul Rauf and Shweta Sharma -- Composting as a bioremediation technique for hazardous organic contaminants / Ackmez Mudhoo and Romeela Mohee -- Policies promoting green chemistry : substitution efforts in Europe / Carl Dalhammar -- Integrated numerical modeling software tools for the efficient project management of sustainable development works in solid waste / Telemachus C. Koliopoulos -- Necessity of risk-assessment tools in solid waste emissions in analyzing environment and public health protection / Georgia Koliopoulou -- Green eluents in chromatography / Ali Mohammad and Nazrul Haq -- Ultrasound applications in biorenewables for enhanced bioenergy and biofuel production / Samir Kumar Khanal [and others] -- Microbes as green and eco-friendly nanofactories / Rashmi Sanghi and Preeti Verma -- Plant-based biofortification : from phytoremediation to selenium-enriched agricultural products / Liu Ying [and others] -- Biocatalysis : green transformations of nitrile function / Nicola D'Antona and Raffaele Morrone. |
