Overview of Green Chemistry
The definition of green chemistry
What is the design of chemical products and processes that reduce or eliminate the use or generation of hazardous substances?
A solvent used in green synthesis
What is water, ionic liquids, polyethylene glycols, and some scandium fluids?
The importance of atom economy
What is preventing pollution on a molecular level?
One example of a greenhouse gas
What is carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, etc?
A property of chemicals used in green chemistry
What is degradable?
The number of principles in green chemistry
What is 12?
The definition of green synthesis
What is the synthesis of metal nano-particles using plant or plant parts.
The highest possible amount of atom economy
What is 100%?
A negative effect of the greenhouse effect
What is global warming, rising sea levels, etc.?
A property that chemicals are designed to have less of
What is toxicity?
The importance of green chemistry
What is it helps the environment by reducing harm from toxic chemicals?
A method used for green synthesis
What is ball milling, microwave irradiation, photocatalysis, ultrasound-assisted synthesis, etc.?
The type of reaction that has the highest atom economy
What is an addition reaction?
A cause of the greenhouse effect
What is burning fossil fuels, deforestation, farming, or livestock production?
Conditions used for chemical reactions
What are room temperature and pressure?
The areas of chemistry to which green chemistry applies
What is all of them?
Properties of catalysts that are used in green synthesis
What is non-harmful and preferably solid?
What having a high atom economy means
What is most atoms of the starting material and reactants end up in the final product.
A positive of the greenhouse effect
What is it keeps the earth at a temperature able to support life and protects us from UV radiation?
The name of starting materials used in chemicals reactions and are renewable
What are feedstocks?
The father of green chemistry
Who is Paul Anastas?
The definition of a dry media reaction
What is a chemical reaction in the absence of a solvent?
The formula for atom economy
What is the mass of atoms in desired product/mass of atoms in product x 100?
The type of energy emitted from the earth's surface
What is infrared radiation?
Chemicals avoided in green chemistry
What are chemical derivatives?