Green Chemistry

Green Chemistry provides a unique forum for the publication of innovative research on the development of alternative sustainable technologies.  With a wide general appeal, Green Chemistry publishes urgent communications and high quality research papers as well as review articles.

The scope of Green Chemistry is based on, but not limited to, the definition proposed by Anastas and Warner (Green Chemistry: Theory and Practice, P. T. Anastas and J. C. Warner, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998): Green chemistry is the utilization of a set of principles that reduces or eliminates the use or generation of hazardous substances in the design, manufacture and application of chemical products.

Green Chemistry is at the frontiers of this science and publishes research that attempts to reduce the environmental impact of the chemical enterprise by developing a technology base that is inherently non-toxic to living things and the environment.

All manuscripts must be written so as to be widely accessible (conceptually) to chemists and technologists. Green Chemistry does not normally deal with research associated with 'end-of-pipe' or remediation issues.

Green Chemistry coverage includes:

The application of innovative technology to establish industrial procedures

The development of environmentally improved routes and methods to important products

The design of new, greener and safer chemicals and materials

The use of sustainable resources

The use of biotechnology alternatives to chemistry-based solutions

Methodologies and tools for measuring environmental impact

Chemical aspects of renewable energy