- "Students are given the opportunity to assess chemical products and processes and design greener alternatives when appropriate."
- "Students understand and can evaluate the environmental, social, and health impacts of a chemical product over the life cycle of the product, from synthesis to disposal."
At the highest level of the ACS guidelines, students are expected to have a deeper understanding of and critical thinking skills around developing and designing greener chemical products and processes. This can include the various environmental, social and health aspects of a chemical product, in particular as it pertains to life cycle analysis.
GCTLC Library
Below are resources from the GCTLC library that are tagged with any of the following Green Chemistry Principles:
- #3 (Less Hazardous Chemical Syntheses)
- #4 (Design Safer Chemicals)
- #5 (Safer Solvents and Auxiliaries)
OR have been tagged with keyword "Life Cycle Assessment".
The variety of resources below should provide educators with numerous options to help tailor their lectures and courses with more green and sustainable chemistry content. However, if you have additional suggestions for resources, you can always submit them for inclusion in the GCTLC library, or you can post them in the forum "Green Chemistry Resources for Addressing the ACS Guidelines" on the GCTLC.
Green Goggles: Designing and Teaching a General Chemistry Course to Nonmajors Using a Green Chemistry Approach
A novel course using green chemistry as the context to teach general chemistry fundamentals was designed, implemented and is described here. The course design included an active learning approach, with major course graded components including a weekly blog entry, exams, and a semester project that was disseminated by wiki and a public symposium. Results include self-reports of gains in knowledge ...
Greener Alternative to Qualitative Analysis for Cations without H2S and Other Sulfur-Containing Compounds
Qualitative analysis of inorganic salts and mixtures is a common component of high school, undergraduate, and graduate-level curricula. The hydrogen sulfide scheme given by Fresenius is a widely accepted scheme used for studying Le Chatelier's Principle, the common-ion effect, and solubility products. However, H2S is deadly even at low air concentrations, can cause permanent physiological damage ...
Greener synthesis of medicinally relevant amides
This is an undergraduate organic laboratory experiment for the preparation of either of two medicinally relevant amide products from a biorenewable carboxylic acid and an amine using a green, non-sensitizing coupling reagent combination in acetonitrile. The procedure could also be adapted for different acids and amines, particularly when the amide products can be readily precipitated and filtered ...
Greening Wittig Reactions: Solvent-Free Synthesis of Ethyl trans-Cinnamate and trans-3- (9-Anthryl)-2-Propenoic Acid Ethyl Ester
While the Wittig reaction is often used as an example of a reaction with poor atom economy, it is still important to recognize that any reaction, the Wittig included, can be made greener. This solvent-less Witting not only eliminates the hazards associated with traditional solvents but also uses reagents with little or no known toxicity. This is particularly notable given the relatively high ...
How Green Chemistry Can Help Advance Environmental Justice
Hear how advances in green chemistry can help address environmental justice challenges and how engaging with affected communities can help green chemistry experts more effectively target their solutions.
My guest is Sederra Ross of the American Chemical Society's Green Chemistry Institute.
This episode includes 1) a 2-minute preview video, 2) a 45-minute video of the full interview... and 3) ...
Incorporating Sustainability and Life Cycle Assessment into First-Year Inorganic Chemistry Major Laboratories
This is a J Chem Ed article that outlines how we redesigned an Inorganic Chemistry laboratory course to create a consistent and focused approach to green chemistry, leading to an increase in a research mindset.
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.5b00281
Authors: Marta Guron, Jared Paul, Margaret Roeder
Industrial Chemistry
This module is part of a collection of nine green chemistry teaching modules developed in the early 2000s by a team of faculty (Donna Narsavage-Heald, Trudy Dickneider, David Marx, Timothy Foley, Joan Wasilewski) led by Michael Cann at the University of Scranton and has been migrated to the GCTLC. The subjects of the modules are based on winners of the Green Chemistry Challenge Awards. The modules ...
Infographic and Discussion on Application to Organic Chemistry I Lecture
In Organic Chemistry I, many connections can be made to the new reactions and content students learn. As such, in the lecture, students see weekly a connection to Green Chemistry Principles modeled in preparation for an infographic activity on one green principle. In this activity, students work in small groups of 2-3 students to create an infographic on one slide (ppt) and present it to their ...
Inorganic Chemistry
This module is part of a collection of nine green chemistry teaching modules developed in the early 2000s by a team of faculty (Donna Narsavage-Heald, Trudy Dickneider, David Marx, Timothy Foley, Joan Wasilewski) led by Michael Cann at the University of Scranton and has been migrated to the GCTLC. The subjects of the modules are based on winners of the Green Chemistry Challenge Awards. The modules ...
Intellectual Ecology by Dr. John Warner
Dr. John Warner speaks at a Bioneers conference in 2014 on "Intellectual Ecology". This is a great inspirational introductory video for understanding Green Chemistry.