Main description:

This book contains a series of exercises and problems posed in the subject of green metrics. Essentially it is a "how to" book on evaluating the material efficiency, environmental impact, safety-hazard impact, and energy efficiency of any kind of chemical reaction or synthesis plan. Only the essential green metrics in each of these categories are used. The introduction highlights the hierarchy of metrics used throughout the book, explains the structure of how the book is arranged, how the problems are posed, and how the reader is to use the book. Examples refer to themes according to the headings given in the table of contents and are arranged in a hierarchical order.

Key Features:

The topics cover fundamentals in chemistry and the chemical industry in a blended fashion
A unique text covering the fundamentals of green metrics from materials efficiency and environmental and safety-hazard impact, to new green technologies and more
The book will be useful in a range of chemistry courses, from early undergraduate to advanced graduate courses, whether based in lectures, tutorials or laboratory experiments
Using an extensive glossary of terms used in green metrics, each chapter has a specified theme where the relevant metrics definitions pertaining to that theme will be given with one or two illustrative worked examples
Supplemental web-based downloadable material including extra problems, full solutions, Excel files, ChemDraw files, templates, and exercises

Contents:

Preface

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Constitution of a Chemical Reaction and Reaction Balancing

Chapter 3 Experimental Description of Chemical Reactions

Chapter 4 Chemical Reaction Classifications

Chapter 5 Drawing Chemical Structures

Chapter 6 Waste Production and Input Material Consumption

Chapter 7 Intrinsic Greenness

Chapter 8 Automated Computation for a Single Reaction

Appendix: Other Terminologies

Index