Green Chemistry and Engineering

Awareness of environmental impacts and sustainability has grown in recent decades, and now informs actions at all levels of society. Chemical research and manufacturing is no different. This section introduces the principles that drive safer and more sustainable chemistry. At the forefront of these initiatives is Green Chemistry (Anastas and Warner, 1998) to promote the use of benign chemicals and less wasteful methodologies for the synthesis of chemical products. Green Chemistry itself is based on earlier principles of environmental protection and health and safety guidelines, and subsequently other practices and frameworks for sustainable science have evolved from Green Chemistry. We will now cover the basic principles of Green Chemistry and related disciplines.