The course aims to provide the knowledge and skills useful in designing chemicals, products, materials, and plants with minimal impact on human health and the environment.
The concepts that will be presented are the emerging ones of the Green Chemistry:
Atom Economy, and Green Chemistry Metrics, Material Efficiency and Strategic Synthesis Design; Green catalysis: heterogeneous catalysis and biocatalysis; Green solvents, such as supercritical fluids, ionic liquids, water, bio-based solvents, nontoxic liquid polymers, and their various combinations; Conversion of renewable biomass into valuable chemicals, materials (bioplastics) and energy; Designing and synthesizing materials with appropriate lifetimes; Intensification of chemical processes: intensification of reaction and chemical processes.