Handbook of Green Chemistry and Technology

Contributors Preface Introduction Principles of sustainable and green chemistry Chemistry and the environment Green chemistry and sustainable development Life cycle assessment: A tool for identification of more sustainable products and processes Industrial processes using solid acid catalysts Micelle templated silicas as catalysts in green chemistry Polymer-supported reagents Biocatalysis Recent advances in phase transfer catalysis Hydrogen peroxide in waste minimisation - current and potential contributions Waste minimisation in pharmaceutical process development: Principles, practice and challenges Green catalysts for industry Green chemistry in practice Process intensification for green chemistry Sonochemistry Applications of microwaves for environmentally benign organic chemistry Photochemistry Electrochemistry and sustainability Fuel cells: a clean energy technology for the future Supercritical carbon dioxide as an environmentally benign reaction medium for chemical synthesis Chemistry in fluorous biphasic systems Extraction of natural products with superheated water Index