Authors: Edward R Adlard
Publish Date: 2014/07/29
Volume: 77, Issue: 17-18, Pages: 1249-1250
Abstract
Having been educated in an era before health and safety became Health and Safety and benzene was freely used as a degreaser I approached this volume with a certain degree of scepticism However from a logical point of view one can only be wholeheartedly in favour of the aims of Green Chemistry of which Green Solvents are an integral part It is clear that the topic has become an extremely active one over the last 10 years with a dedicated journal Green Chemistry published by the RSC and prizes awarded by governments to companies deemed to have made significant advances The RSC has initiated a series of books on the subject and this one is the twentieth in the seriesThe first chapter is an introduction to the topic and explains on the first page that the use of solvents should be avoided if possible but if necessary green solvents should be used and should “be of low toxicity easy to recycle inert and do not contaminate the product” This definition
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