Alvise Perosa & Fulvio Zecchini 
Methods and Reagents for Green Chemistry 
An Introduction

This book aims to stimulate and promote the wide-ranging aspects of
green chemistry and its major role in ensuring sustainable
development.

The book covers the following areas: green chemistry; green
reagents and atom economy; safeguarding the atmosphere; industrial
green catalysis; alternative reaction conditions; biocatalysis and
green chemistry.

This book is based on the third edition of the Collection of
Lectures of the Summer Schools on Green Chemistry held in Venice,
Italy in the summers of 1998-2003 (sponsored by the European
Commission, TMR and Improving Programmes and carried out by the
Consortzio Interuniversitario La Chemica per l’Ambiente).

Table des matières

Foreword.

Preface.

Contributors.

PART 1. GREEN REAGENTS.

1. The Four-Component reaction and Other Multi Component
Reactions of the Isocyanides (Ivar Ugi and Birgit Werner).

2. Carbohydrates as Renewable Raw Materials: A Major Challenge
of Green Chemistry (Frieder W. Lichtenthaler).

3. Photoinitiated Synthesis: A Useful Perspective in Green
Chemistry (Angelo Albini).

4. Dimethyl Caronate as a Green Reagent (Pietro Tundo &
Maurizio Selva).

PART 2. ALTERNATIVE REACTION CONDITIONS.

5. Ionic Liquids: ‘Designer’ Solvents for Green Chemistry
(Natalia V. Plechkova and Kenneth R. Seddon).

6. Supported Liquid-Phase Systems in Transition Metal Catalysis
(Alvise Perosa and Sergei Zinovyev).

7. Organic Chemistry in Water: Green and Fast (Jan B. F. N.
Engberts).

8. Formation, Mechanisms, and Minimization of Chlorinated
Micropollutants (Dioxins) Formed in Technical Incineration
Processes (Dieter Lenoir, Ernst Anton Feicht, Marchela Pandelova,
and karl-Werner Schramm).

PART 3. GREEN CATALYSIS AND BIOCATALYSIS.

9. Green Chemistry: Catalysis and Waste Minimization (Roger A
Sheldon).

10. Seamless Chemistry for Sustainability (Johan Thoen and Jean
Luc Guillaume).

11. Enantioselective Metal Catalyzed Oxidation Processes (David
St C. Black).

12. Zeolite Catalysts for Cleaner Technologies (Michel
Guisnet).

13. Acid and Superacid Solid Materials as Noncontaminant
Alternative Catalysts in Refining (José M. López
Nieto).

14. The Oxidation of Isobutane to Methacrylic Acid: An
Alternative Technology for MMA Production (Nicola Ballarini,
Fabrizio Cavani, Hélène Degrand, Eric Etienne, Anne
Pigano, Ferruccio Trifitrò, and J. L. Dubois).

15. Biocatalysis for Industrial Green Chemistry (Zhi Li, Martin
Held, Sven Panke, Andrew Schnid, Renata Mathys and Bernard
Witholt).

Index.

A propos de l’auteur

Pietro Tundo, editor, is Full Professor of Organic Chemistry
at the University of Venice. He has published over 200 scientific
articles and one book, and holds twenty-five patents. His research
on clean processes led to the development of Gas-Liquid
Phase-Transfer Catalysis, a method for the synthesis of
non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.

Alvise Perosa, coeditor, is Assistant Professor of
Organic Chemistry at the Università Ca’ Foscari in Venice,
Italy.

Fulvio Zecchini, coeditor, is a senior researcher at the
Interuniversity Consortium ‘Chemistry for the Environment’ in
Venice, Italy, in the field of bioremediation of water and
soils.