Overview
- Written to seamlessly integrate green metrics into any undergraduate organic chemistry curriculum
- Provides cutting-edge industrial examples
- Highlights practical applications for students to calculate metrics rapidly and accurately
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science (BRIEFSMOLECULAR)
Part of the book sub series: SpringerBriefs in Green Chemistry for Sustainability (GREENCHEMIST)
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Reviews
“This work, part of the ‘SpringerBriefs in Green Chemistry’ series, is suitable for those who desire an overview and a few practical applications of green chemistry principles and associated metrics. … an excellent foundation for a one-to-three-week module of another chemistry course, or a seminar course on green chemistry principles and practice. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals/practitioners.” (R. Handler, Choice, Vol. 52 (9), May, 2015)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Andrew (Andy) Dicks joined the University of Toronto Chemistry Department in 1997. After undergraduate and graduate study in the United Kingdom, he became an organic chemistry sessional lecturer in 1999, and was hired as part of the university teaching-stream faculty two years later. He has research interests in undergraduate laboratory instruction that involve designing novel and stimulating experiments, particularly those that showcase green chemistry principles. This work has lead to over twenty peer-reviewed publications in the chemical education literature. Following promotion in 2006, he became Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies for two years and developed an ongoing interest in improving the student experience in his department. He has won several pedagogical awards, including the University of Toronto President's Teaching Award, the Canadian Institute of Chemistry National Award for Chemical Education, and most recently a 2011 American Chemical Society-Committee on Environmental Improvement Award for Incorporating Sustainability into Chemistry Education.
Andrei Hent earned a Chemistry B.Sc. with Honors in 2012 from the University of Toronto. Between 2012 and 2014, he worked with Dr. Andrew Dicks to design a laboratory examination for third-year undergraduate students featuring green metrics. Most recently, he and Dr. John Andraos have collaborated on two research papers that focus on communicating new insights about green metrics to an academic audience. His professional interests include effective communication of scientific ideas, especially in the context of organic synthesis, which he intends to pursue in a graduate program.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Green Chemistry Metrics
Book Subtitle: A Guide to Determining and Evaluating Process Greenness
Authors: Andrew P. Dicks, Andrei Hent
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10500-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-10499-7Published: 08 October 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-10500-0Published: 23 September 2014
Series ISSN: 2191-5407
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5415
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 90
Number of Illustrations: 59 b/w illustrations
Topics: Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering, Science Education, Organic Chemistry