Abstract
Green chemistry refers to the application of minimization principles to eliminate negative environmental impacts of chemicals and chemical processes. Such principles are based on redesigning current industrial and laboratory-based methods to adhere to defined (and well-established) principles of green chemistry. The twelve principles of green chemistry are—preventing wastage, maximizing atom economy, designing less hazardous chemical syntheses, designing safer chemicals and products, using safer solvents/reaction conditions, increasing energy efficiency, using renewable feedstocks, avoiding chemical derivatives, using catalysts, not stoichiometric reagents, designing chemicals and products that degrade after use, analyzing in real time to prevent pollution, and minimizing the potential for accidents. The twelve principles of green chemistry can provide a roadmap for scientists and technologists in their quest to reduce or eliminate the use and generation of hazardous-type chemicals and to design appropriate technology to increase economic, environmental, and societal improvements.
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