 | Green Chemistry Green Chemistry: An Inclusive Approach provides a broad overview of green chemistry for researchers from either an environmental science or chemistry background, starting at a more elementary level, incorporating more advanced concepts, and including more chemistry as the book progresses. Every chapter includes recent, state-of-the-art references, in particular, review articles, to introduce researchers to this field of interest and provide them with information that can be easily built upon. By bringing together experts in multiple subdisciplines of green chemistry, the editors have curated a single central resource for an introduction to the discipline as a whole. Topics include a broad array of research fields, including the chemistry of Earth's atmosphere, water and soil, the synthesis of fine chemicals, and sections on pharmaceuticals, plastics, energy related issues (energy storage, fuel cells, solar, and wind energy conversion etc., greenhouse gases and their handling, chemical toxicology issues of everyday products (from perfumes to detergents or clothing), and environmental policy issues. Bla Trk is a professor of Chemistry at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He received his PhD from the University of Szeged, Hungary in Organic Chemistry/Heterogeneous Catalysis in 1995. He did postdoctoral training with the 1994 Nobel Laureate George Olah at the University of Southern California working on environmentally benign alkylate gasoline production. During 2011-12 he was a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology working with the 2005 Nobel Laureate Richard Schrock on new alkene metathesis catalysts. His main research focus is on the design of new green chemistry processes for the synthesis of fine chemicals and pharmaceuticals. Timothy Dransfield received his PhD in Physical Chemistry from Harvard University in 2002, working with James Anderson on the study of the gas-phase radical reactions of the lower atmosphere. He also did his postdoctoral work in the Anderson group studying the oxidation pathways of small organic molecules in the polluted troposphere. In addition to atmospheric chemistry, his research interests include kinetics, spectroscopy, and computational chemistry. He came to UMB in 2004, where he is currently a senior lecturer in Chemistry. |
