Green chemistry aims to reduce or eliminate the use of hazardous substances in chemical products and processes. It seeks to design chemical syntheses and products that are less polluting and more environmentally friendly. The principles of green chemistry encourage using safer solvents and auxiliaries like water, switching to renewable feedstocks when possible, improving energy efficiency in chemical processes, and avoiding unnecessary derivatization steps. Adopting these principles can help create chemical products and processes that are less wasteful and reduce pollution at its source.

1. Green Chemistry
Introduction and Principle

2. Green chemistry:
• Green chemistry is the utilisation of a set of principles that reduce or
eliminate the use or generation of hazardous substances in the
design, manufacture and application of chemical products.
• The goal of green chemistry is to create better, safer chemicals while
choosing the safest, most efficient ways to synthesize them and to
reduce waste.
Paul Anastas first coined the term “Green Chemistry”
and is known as father of green chemistry

3. Need of Green Chemistry :
• In 1962, the mainstream scientific book “Silent Spring” mentioned the
harmful effects of DDT on birds. This chemical bio-accumulate in birds
and caused eggshell thinning or nesting failure, resulting in dramatic
population decline.
• Thalidomide was used to treat nausea in pregnant women till 1962. It was
withdrawn from the market after several reported newborn with birth
defects

4. • In 1956 in Minamata, Japan a new disease i.e. Minamata
disease was first discovered which is caused by the
release of methyl mercury in the industrial wastewater
from a chemical factory.
• In 1969, the Cuyahoga river in northeast Ohio, became so
affected by industrial pollution that it “caught fire” at least
13 times, most famously on June 22, 1969.
• The leakage of methyl isocyanate in Bhopal, India
in 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL)
pesticide plant is considered to be the world’s
worst industrial disaster. Nearly 4000 people died
in this incident.

5. 1962: Racheal Carson’s scientific book “Silent spring” served
as a wake-up call for the public, scientists and inspired the
modern environmental movement.
1969:Congress recognized the importance of the issue and passed
the National Environment Policy Act (NEPA)
1970: President Richard Nixon established the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency which is devoted to
protecting human health and the environment
1980: The chemical industry and the EPA were focused mainly
on pollution clean up and toxins.
1990: The Pollution Prevention Act under the George H.W.
Bush Administration is passed
1998: The 12 Principles of Green Chemistry were published,
providing the new field with a clear set of guidelines for further
development.
1999: The Royal Society of Chemistry launched its
journal Green Chemistry.

6. Principles Of Green Chemistry:

7. Safer solvents and Auxiliaries:
The use of auxiliary substances (e.g. solvents, drying agents should be
avoided, if possible. They may cause environment pollution or health
hazard.
What to do?
 Use of water as solvent:
• Water is one of the most abundant molecules on earth
• It is inexpensive, especially when compared to organic solvents
• nonflammable, and nontoxic
• Large heat capacity
 Use of liquid or supercritical fluid:
A supercritical fluid (SCF) is any substance at a temperature and pressure
above its critical point, where distinct liquid and gas phases do not exist. It can
effuse through solids like a gas, and dissolve materials like a liquid.
• Very high volatility so ideal for the extraction of thermally labile
compounds
• Complete separation of solvent from extract
• Lower production cost
• Easier generation

8.  Use of non volatile solvents: ionic liquid
Ionic liquids are mixtures of anions and cations, fused salts with melting point
less than 100 °C.
• By modifying the structures and charges of the ions, ionic liquids can exhibit
specific properties such as m.p., viscosity, volatility & hydrophobicity to
meet the particular needs of a synthesis.
• Also by modifying their structure they can be made biodegradable.
 Use of hybrid solvents systems of the above the three
 Neat reactions: solvent-less reactions:
Such type of reactions are difficult to perform in case of conventional heating as
heat exchange is difficult without a solvent but microwave heating get the job
done
• More economic (reduction of solvent cost)
• Easy work up and purification
• Eco-friendly

9. Increase energy efficiency:
Energy requirement of chemical processes should be recognized and should
be minimized
Ways to reduce energy consumption:
• Maintenance: Good insulation and well maintained equipment reduce heat
and energy loses.
• Recovery: Waste generated by chemical processes often has an energy value
and can be converted into useful fuel for office heating and hot water
production.
• Chemical reactions – choice of catalyst and conditions
 To carry out the reaction at room temperature and atmospheric pressure.
 Development of catalyst so that the process can be run at lower
temperatures and pressures
 Use of microwave heating
Heating
Cooling
Stirring
Distillation
Compression
pumping
Separation
Require
energy
Burning
Of fossil
fuel
Release of
CO2
Global
warming

10. Use of renewable feedstock:
A raw material or feedstock should be renewable rather than depleting
one, whenever technically and economically practical.
• synthesis of levulinic acid and HMF from bio waste: a
feedstock for the synthesis of various chemicals
• The fermentation of glucose in the presence of bacteria and propanoic
acid gives polyhydroxy alkanoates (PHAs). PHAs are similar to
polypropene or polyethene but biodegradable.
• Use of ethanol as biofuel
Use of renewable energy technologies that include solar energy,
wind power, hydropower, biomass energy and biofuels.

11. Avoid chemical derivatives:
Unnecessary derivatization (blocking group, protection/
deprotection, temporary modification of physical/chemical
processes) should be avoided whenever possible.
Instead more selective and better alternative synthetic
sequences that eliminate the need for functional group
protection should be adopted
One of the best ways of doing this is the use of enzymes.
Enzymes are so specific that they can often react with one
site of the molecule and leave the rest of the molecule intact
and hence protecting groups are often not required

12. THANK YOU…..
Let the green chemistry grow