Green Analytical Chemistry Theory and Practice Comprehensive Analytical Chemistry Series
This book provides basic coverage of the fundamentals and principles of green chemistry as it applies to chemical analysis. The main goal of Green Analytical Chemistry is to avoid or reduce the undesirable environmental side effects of chemical analysis, while preserving the classic analytical parameters of accuracy, sensitivity, selectivity, and precision. The authors review the main strategies for greening analytical methods, concentrating on minimizing sample preparation and handling, reducing solvent and reagent consumption, reducing energy consumption, minimizing of waste, operator safety and the economic savings that this approach offers.
Suggestions are made to educators and editors to standardize terminology in order to facilitate the identification of analytical studies on green alternatives in the literature because there is not a wide and generalized use of a common term that can group efforts to prevent waste, avoid the use of potentially toxic reagents or solvents and those involving the decontamination of wastes.
1. Origins of Green Analytical Chemistry2. The basis of a greener Analytical Chemistry3. A green evaluation of existing analytical methods4. Avoiding sample treatments5. Greening sample treatments6. Multianalyte determination versus one-at-a-time methodologies7. Downsizing the methods8. Moving from wastes to clean wastes9. Ideas for a change of mentality and practices10. Practical consequences of green analytical chemistryINDEX
Researchers and scientists doing chemical analysis in a laboratory environment, teachers and graduate students in academia
Sergio Armenta is professor of the Analytical Chemistry Department of the University of Valencia (Spain). He obtained his PhD in Analytical Chemistry at the Universitat de València in 2006. His research topics included coupling of automated flow systems with infrared and Raman spectroscopy and the development of vibrational spectroscopy
- provides environmentally-friendly alternatives to established analytical practice
- focuses on the cost-saving opportunities offered
- emphasis on laboratory personnel safety
Date de parution : 10-2010
Ouvrage de 268 p.
15x22.8 cm
