There will be a short course on Green Chemistry offered in conjunction with the ACS National Meeting in Washington D.C.

Green Chemistry: Economic and Environmental Benefits
SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 2000

Information about the instructors:
Paul Anastas has worked as a director of the U. S. Green Chemistry Project and has written extensively on the subject of green chemistry.

John Warner is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Massachusetts,
Boston and co-authored Green Chemistry: Theory and Practice.

Mary Kirchhoff is an AAAS fellow with the U. S. Green Chemistry Program in the Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics, U. S. Environmental
Protection Agency

Who Should Attend:
Chemists who are interested in learning about current green chemistry practices in the lab and managers who want to learn more about how the economic and environmental benefits of green chemistry can improve their bottom line. Those who are already implementing green chemistry practices will also benefit from this course.

Key Topics
How to evaluate current products and processes for greener alternatives
Who are the leading practitioners of and advocates for green chemistry
What economic benefits can be achieved through the adoption of more environmentally benign practices
When green chemistry is most effective in pollution prevention
Why green chemistry is crucial to achieving a sustainable future
Where green chemistry is being introduced in industry, academia, and government
Ways to incorporate more environmentally-benign protocols into existing technologies

Benefits from This Course
Understand the basics of green chemistry
Learn how green chemistry is being applied in industry
Examine the award-winning technologies that have received the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award
Understand that green chemistry is a concept that is applicable to all areas of chemistry
Find out about the economic and environmental benefits that are being realized through the implementation of green chemistry in industry

Program Agenda
Check-in will begin at 8:10 a.m. and the course will be taught from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. If you have technical questions about the course, please contact Paul Anastas at panastas@ostp.eop.gov

o Overview of Green Chemistry
o Basic concepts
o An historical perspective
o The 12 Principles of Green Chemistry
o The Role of Catalysis in Green Chemistry
o Applications of Green Chemistry in the Pharmaceutical Industry
o Green Chemistry in Polymer Design and Manufacture
o Alternative feedstocks
o Petroleum-based feedstocks
o Renewable feedstocks
o Safer starting materials
o Alternative Syntheses
o Strategies for improving existing syntheses
o Alternative Solvents
o Problems associated with alternative solvents
o Replacement of existing solvents with water, supercritical fluids, and ionic liquids
o Solventless systems
o Alternative Products
o Environmental and human health concerns associated with existing products; replacement products
o Environmental Gains
o Benefits to human health
o Impact on the environment
o Economic Benefits
o Cost of regulation
o Economic benefit s of pollution prevention

Site
Washington Convention Center
 
Fee
ACS Members: $395
Nonmembers: $495
Course Code: GREN

For more information go to the ACS Short Course Catalog at:

http://www.acs.org/education/professional/short.html

Denny Hjeresen
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Dr. Dennis L. Hjeresen
Senior Program Manager
Environmental Management Programs
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos, NM 87545
(505) 665-7251/FAX 5-8118
e-mail: dennish@lanl.gov
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