Green Chemistry (Chemistry 442), Fall- 2015
M, W & F : 10:00--- 10:50, Room S-215
Tuesday : 11:00---12:30, Lab----S-135
Course Code & Title : Chem-442 Green Chemistry
Credit Hours: 4
INSTRUCTOR INFORMATION:
Dr Seemal Jelani
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry
Room# 163 Armacost Building
Tel:99231581 Ext: 595
Cell: 03004194687 seemaljelani@fccollege.edu.pk
Course Description:
To understand the environmental consequences of chemical manufacturing and illustrate how these may be minimized.
Content
Application of innovative technology to established industrial processes, environmentally improved routes to important products, design of new green chemicals and materials, sustainable resources, biotechnology alternatives, evaluation of environmental impact.
See drseemaljelani.wordpress.com
course website for more information.
This course covers the most significant emerging field in modern chemistry, namely,
Green chemistry, the field which focuses upon the reinvention of chemistry such that pollution can be avoided. The chemical nature and action of pollutants of the atmosphere, land, and water sources will be presented along with prospects for their minimization, and approaches for their eradication. Examples of successful green chemistry developments will be highlighted. Themes woven throughout the course include emerging concepts for guiding green chemistry, environmental toxicology, the development of green oxidants, and an identification of toxins, especially persistent toxins, where elimination will require new green chemistry. A significant effort has been made to produce a course suitable for an interdisciplinary audience and recent classes have come from diverse backgrounds throughout the university.
The course aims to:
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The ultimate aim of green chemistry is to entirely cut down the stream of chemicals pouring into the environment
To think prospectively about how to change our education subjects to be sustainable learning tools by Investigating examples of green chemistry applications relevant to students

Green Chemistry (Chemistry 442), Fall- 2015
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To understand the important role of the green chemistry and how to deal with it in our practical life
Teach the fundamentals of greener chemical processes including the political
 and environmental drivers that impact on the chemical industry.
 Familiarize students with legislation and control of hazardous substances.
 Provide students with the skills to propose a synthetic plan for any molecule
Give the students the opportunity to perform research work as part of an active research group within the Department.
 Prepare students for employment as scientists in industry, academia or a research institute by direct entry or following further study.
 Microwave mediated reactions
 Applications of photochemistry, electrochemistry, sonochemistry and other alternative resources for greener applications (like fuel cells)
 The applications of hydrogen peroxide as greener solvents
Student Learning Objectives:
1. Understand and identify structure/function relationships with respect to chemical properties, biological activity, and product performance. Be able to rank competing synthetic methods using the twelve principles of Green Chemistry along with other technical metrics
2. To understand the environmental consequences of chemical manufacturing and illustrate how these may be minimized
3. Introduce the 12 principles of green chemistry as well as the tools of green chemistry including the use of alternative feedstocks or starting material reagents, solvents, target molecules, and catalysts.
4. Demonstrate an understanding of green approaches to industrial scale chemical processes.
5. Show knowledge of specific green alternatives including alternative solvents, reactor design, atom efficient reactions, energy issues and full life cycle analysis.
6. Propose possible synthetic routes for almost any chemical.
7. Recognize and understand the major methods of separation, purification, and characterization of compounds.
8. Use scientific skills in a research project on green chemistry.
9. Demonstrate transferable skills in oral presentation, report writing and the use of information technology.
10. Students will understand how to assess the environmental impact of chemical operations and understand the methods for their minimization and be able to suggest alternative green methods to current processes .
Course Evaluation :
Weekly Assignments :
The assignments for the class will focus on developing good presentation skills and developing the ability to critically evaluate the literature. Detailed descriptions of the assignments will be posted on the course website.
Literature Summaries :

Green Chemistry (Chemistry 442), Fall- 2015
Every Monday, one quarter of the class will be expected to turn in a typed summary of one of the journal articles assigned for the prior week and to lead the discussion of the articles during Monday’s class. These summaries will follow an online discussion outside of the classroom, using the Blackboard environment as a tool to facilitate discussion during the previous week. Please refer to the handout
‘ Everyone is expected to come to class prepared to discuss the journal articles assigned for that week.
Midterm Paper:
Midterm paper critiquing a specific recent development in green chemistry will be due at the end of the midterm week. Students are encouraged to refer to Real World
Cases in Green Chemistry for an example on how to structure the paper. The paper can be written as if it were an additional chapter in the book. Topics are easily found from other or more recent Presidential Green Chemistry Awards that are not covered in the text.
Final Project :
The final project for the course will be a 15 minute in class presentation of your critical evaluation of a green chemical process or procedure that was recently developed. These critiques should closely follow the outline used in each Chapter of
Real World Cases in Green Chemistry. Homework assignments throughout the course will be geared towards helping you to assemble and prepare this 15 minute
PowerPoint presentation.
Green Chemistry presentation rubric student performance will be on individual basis
Green chemistry project rubric will be on individual basis
Green week
Green chemistry Wiki project : A Wiki is a self-made website. Students will be researching an environmentally unfriendly product (conventional product) and comparing it to its green , environmentally friendly, counterpart (innovative product).
They will be using www.wikispaces.com
COURSE EVALUATION (It can be altered)
ACTIVITY TO BE ASSESSED WEIGHTAGE (% AGE)
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Final Exams: 30%
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Mid exams:
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Laboratory work and write ups:
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Class quizzes:
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Green Chemistry presentation
15%
20%
07%
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Attendance:
08%
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Green chemistry project 08%
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Green chemistry Wiki project 07%
05%
Total 100%
Laboratory work:
1. 12 Principles of Green Chemistry and how to introduce and explain them

Green Chemistry (Chemistry 442), Fall- 2015
2. Essential Oil Extraction using Liquid CO
2
3. Acetylation of primary amine (Preparation of acetanilide ) Conventional
Procedure; Alternative Green Procedure
4. Recycling Polylactic Acid
5. Water based organic synthesis
6. Synthetic route for different polymers using green resources
7. Reaction involving renewable resources

Green Chemistry (Chemistry 442), Fall- 2015
CHEM-442 GREEN CHEMISTRY
1. INTRODUCTION AND PRINCIPLES OF SUSTAINABLE AND GREEN
CHEMISTRY
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Green chemistry and industry
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Waste minimization and atom economy
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Reduction of materials use,
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Reduction of non-renewable raw material use
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Reduction of energy requirement
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Inherently safe design
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Alternative solvents
1. GREEN CHEMISTRY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
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The Concept of Sustainability
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Green Chemistry and Sustainability Parameters
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Sustainable use of chemical feedstock
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Sustainable use of water
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Sustainable use of energy
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Environmental resilience
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Life-cycle Assessment (As a Tool for Identification of More Sustainable Products and Processes)
2. INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES USING CATALYSTS
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Zeolite-based solid acid catalysts
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Heteropolyacid-based solid acid catalysts
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Sulfated zirconia
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Ion-exchange resins
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Acidic and pillared clays
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Silica nanocomposite
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high-octane fuels
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Waste Minimization in Industry (by Means of purification, Choice of starting material, Yields, Number and order of steps, Robustness, Solvents, Reagents,
Reaction temperature, Heavy metals, Endurance etc.)
3. POLYMER-SUPPORTED REAGENTS

Green Chemistry (Chemistry 442), Fall- 2015
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Polymeric tools for organic synthesis
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Copolymerisation with usual Monomers (Polystyrenes, Polyacrylates,
Polyvinylpyridines,
Chlorofluoropolymers)
Polybenzimidazoles, Polyphosphazenes,
4. BIOCATALYSIS
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Chemical Production by Biocatalysis
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(Pharmaceuticals, Flavours and fragrance compounds, Carbohydrates)
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Biodesulfurisation
5. RECENT ADVANCES IN PHASE-TRANSFER CATALYSIS
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Progress in Classical PTC Reactions
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Nucleophilic aliphatic and aromatic substitutions
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Phase-transfer catalysis elimination and isomerisation reactions
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Base-promoted C, N, O and S alkylation and arylation reactions
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Inverse PTC
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Three Liquid Phases and Triphase Catalysis
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Asymmetric PTC
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Phase-transfer Catalysis in Polymerization Processes
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Applications of PTC in Analytical Chemistry
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Phase Transfer Combined with Metal Catalysis
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Phase transfer in homogeneous transition metal catalysis
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Hydrogen Peroxide and Other PTC Oxidations and Halogenations
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Supercritical and Ionic Liquid PTC
6. POTENTIAL CONTRIBUTIONS OF HYDROGEN PEROXIDE
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Manufacture of hydrogen peroxide
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Uses of hydrogen peroxide
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Peroxygen Systems and their Reactivity
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Effect of acids and bases
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Oxygen species
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Per-acids and organic activation
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Catalytic activation
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Peroxo
–metal systems
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Enzymes
7. APPLICATIONS OF MICROWAVES FOR ENVIRONMENTALLY BENIGN
SYNTHESES
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Background
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Properties of Microwaves
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Influence of Microwave Heating on Chemical Reactions
 Rate Studies and Investigations into ‘Microwave Effects’

Green Chemistry (Chemistry 442), Fall- 2015
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Approaches to Microwave assisted Organic Chemistry
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Solvent-free methods
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Methods with solvents
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Advantages of the Pressurized Microwave Systems
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Elevated temperature
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Rapid heating
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cooling and ease of use for high-temperature reactions
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Control of heating
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Exothermic reactions
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differential heating and viscous reaction mixtures
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Reaction vessels
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Reactions with a distillation step
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Flexible operation High-temperature Water as a Medium or Solvent for
Microwave-assisted Organic Synthesis
SPECIAL TOPICS
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Photochemistry
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Electrochemistry
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Fuel Cells for greener chemistry applications
CHEM-442 LAB ACTIVITIES
1. Water based organic synthesis
2. PTC based transformations
3. Microwave radiated reactions
4. Synthetic route for different polymers using green resources
5. Reaction involving renewable resources