Green Chemistry ? A Review

Abstract

Chemical goods and processes that are created from the ground up by principles that make them favorable to life will serve as the material foundation upon which a sustainable society will be built. To determine whether compounds and processes are depleting or renewable, harmful or benign, and persistent or rapidly degradable, it is necessary to take into consideration the important intrinsic features of molecules from the very beginning, which is the design stage. The ideas of green chemistry and green engineering will need to be incorporated into products, feedstocks, and manufacturing processes to meet the requirements of an enlarged definition of performance that considers sustainability considerations. To accomplish this change, it will be necessary to combine the most successful aspects of scientific and innovative traditions with the most recent developments in systems thinking and design. This transformation will begin at the molecular level and will ultimately have a positive impact on a global scale.