Green Chemistry: Fundamentals of Sustainable Chemical Science and Technology

by Stanley E. Manahan

"Green Fundamentals of Sustainable Chemical Science and Technology" covers the emerging area of green chemistry including pertinent aspects of industrial ecology and environmental chemistry. In so doing it includes coverage of basic principles of chemistry, organic chemistry, and biochemistry for readers who may not have backgrounds in these subjects. It is organized around the four environmental spheres commonly recognized in the environmental sciences — air, water, earth, and life — plus a fifth sphere, the anthrosphere, consisting of human activities and structures made by humans. A unique feature of the book is a chapter on terrorism and the role of green chemistry in combating terrorist threats. The specific chapters in the book are the (1) Chemistry, Green Chemistry and Environmental Chemistry; (2) The Basic Building Blocks of Green Chemicals; (3) Safer Materials for a Safer World; (4) Chemical Making Materials Safely Without Damaging The Environment; (5) The Wonderful World of Organic Chemistry and Biochemicals; (6) Energy Relationships; (7) Green Water; (8) Air and The Atmosphere; (9) The How The Revolution in Biology Relates to Green Chemistry; (10) The Geosphere, Soil, And Food The Second Green Revolution In Agriculture; (11) The Anthrosphere and Industrial Ecology; (12) Maximum Utilization of Renewable and Biological Materials; (13) Terroism, Toxicity, and Chemistry in Defense of Human Welfare.

303 pages, Hardcover

Published March 30, 2004

About the author

Stanley Manahan, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus of environmental chemistry at the University of Missouri (Columbia, MO). His focus of research has primarily been on environmental and toxicological chemistry, and waste treatment.

He won the Year 2000 Award of the Italian Chemical Society, Environmental Chemistry Division.