Abstract

It is essential that we infuse green chemistry across the curriculum from non-majors courses to majors courses. Over the last 16 years, since the beginnings of green chemistry at the EPA, green chemistry education has made significant strides but we still have a long way to go. Green chemistry educational materials have been developed, but these tend to be supplementary materials (at first outside but more frequently within existing textbooks) that are easily ignored by instructors trying to cover traditional materials in an already overcrowded course. A survey of undergraduate chemistry textbooks revealed that 33 out of 141 books contained at least some coverage of green chemistry, but the majority only mentions green chemistry once or twice in a cursory manner and generally as supplementary material. Several textbooks that stand out in the crowd are discussed and recommendations for improving the coverage of green chemistry in existing textbooks are given.

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