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USING GREEN CHEMISTRY TO INFLUENCE PROCESS DEVELOPMENT
Citation:
Gonzalez*, M A. AND R L. Smith*. USING GREEN CHEMISTRY TO INFLUENCE PROCESS DEVELOPMENT. Presented at American Chemical Society, Anaheim, CA, March 28 - April 01, 2004.
Impact/Purpose:
To inform the public
Description:
The twelve principles of green chemistry by Anastas and Warner provide the researcher with a foundation or pathway which allows opportunities to incorporate greenness into an existing reaction or when developing alternative technologies. The twelve additional principles of green chemistry by Winterton further this approach by providing insight into how a new technology can be further improved and realized. It is the goal of research from our laboratory to adopt as many of these principles and utilize them as a major component in our research philosophy when developing green technologies.
The USEPA's Office of Research and Development is performing research into the development of green catalysts which use molecular oxygen for the oxidation of saturated hydrocarbons. In addition, this research has been directed to involve a multidisciplinary approach of chemistry and chemical engineering from the onset of the research project. It is intended this approach will no only evolve a green chemical technology but also produce a technology that can provide improvements to a chemical process/operations. To be presented is an example of a green oxidation pathway, which demonstrates improvements to the chemical reaction, as well as the benefits to the process development which are incurred as a result of the improved reaction conditions and catalyst activity.