The recent developments of green and sustainable chemistry in multidimensional way: current trends and challenges

ABSTRACT

Green Chemistry (GC) is a rapidly developing technology that is becoming a very appealing subject for both academic and industrial systems. Sustainable techniques in GC often include substituting hazardous solvents with innocuous ones so that the latter may be included in a particular process. Green analytical chemistry (GAC) is the most well-known field of study in GC. The notion of GC has now advanced to a new level, focusing on aspects other than human health and the environment, such as the life cycle of specific applications and their transdisciplinary activities, and reaching the system level. The main topics covered in this article are the principles of GC, specifics regarding safe and hazardous solvents and their reaction conditions, sustainable synthesis, catalysis, and, lastly, the industrial applications of GC in the production of food, energy, water treatment, and educational materials. The last section discusses the main difficulties in the area of GC. This article offers instances of GC that significantly improve the sustainability of industrial processes and makes recommendations for appropriate actions that support GC production in a widely accepted way.

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KEYWORDS:

• Green chemistry (GC)
• green analytical chemistry (GAC)
• water treatment
• energy production
• food production
• educational system

Acknowledgement

This research was conducted at the Sree Sastha Institute of Engineering and Technology, Chembarambakkam, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. We thank the institute for providing the necessary resources and facilities to carry out this study.

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