“Tis the Season to be GREEN
Welcome to the Science
Symposium
UNH Manchester
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
3-5pm
Handouts
Printouts of all these text slides are
available for those interested.
Pictures in this presentation are from
from parts of student projects – ask a
student team to find out more!
Project Description
Students in Dr. Sarah Prescott Kenick’s
Organic Chemistry class used the
principles and practice of Green
Chemistry to attempt to “green” a high
school or college chemistry laboratory
activity.
Student results are displayed via the
use of online wikis, a free, easy to use,
dynamic online platform to create
websites.
What is Green Chemistry?
Green chemistry is the utilization of a set of
principles that reduces or eliminates the use
or generation of hazardous substances in the
design, manufacture and application of
chemical products
The emphasis is on eliminating hazard rather than
just preventing exposure
Hazard is acknowledged as another important
property of matter
Green chemistry must be the best chemistry practical and economically-driven
12 Principles
(Green Chemistry: Theory and Practice, Anastas and Warner, 1998)
#1: Prevent, rather than treat, waste
#2: Maximize use of materials - atom economy
#3: Avoid hazardous materials (reagents,
starting materials and solvents) and products or
by-products
#4: Design safer products -design in efficacy,
design out hazards
#5: Minimize the use of solvents and auxiliary
substances
#6: Recognize energy costs and minimize them
12 Principles, cont.
#7: Use renewable feedstocks
#8: Omit needless steps -protection/deprotection
#9: Use catalysis!
#10: Design products for end of life -products should
not persist in the environment, should degrade into
innocuous substances
#11: Employ in-line, real-time monitoring/control to
avoid generation of hazardous substances in
transformations
#12: Whenever possible choose substances that
minimize physical danger (explosions, fires, etc.)
Student Projects
Tie Dyeing – An Trinh and Michael Cochran-Boucher
Greening the Synthesis and Analysis of Aspirin –
Alicia DeLuca and Lisa Holt
Iodine Clock Reaction – Ryan Piotrowski and Robin
Renzi
Vanillin Reduction: A Low Solvent Synthesis – Marcus
Nappo and Kevin Heiser
Forensic Fingerprinting – Jane Russell and Stacy
Tanguay
Blood Identification – Katherine Shaw and Duyen Ha
Natural versus Synthetic Dyes – Ben Jarmak and
Jessie Wood
Future Green Projects
Organic Chemistry students next fall
will look into more videotaping of green
experiments to post on a class wiki site
for the benefit of the educational
community and public at large
Green Chemistry Inquiry Course –
under development – hope to offer
Spring 2011
Useful Links/Resources
Doxsee and Hutchison -Green Organic Chemistry:
Strategies, Tools and Laboratory Experiments, Brooks
Cole, 2003. (lab manual used for some course materials - copy
here)
GEMs database (Greener Educational Materials) for
Chemists
http://greenchem.uoregon.edu/gems.html
EPA - Green Chemistry Presidential Awards
http://www.epa.gov/greenchemistry/index.html
Dr K’s wiki - http://sarahkenick.wikispaces.com/
Up to date information on ongoing projects, both here and
collaborations with other institutions
Today’s projects
Links to other resources
All our project items (will link to the project wiki site)
Questions later?
Feel free to contact Dr. Kenick at
sarah.kenick@unh.edu
Hope you got a little green!