Catalysis for Sustainability: Goals, Challenges, and Impacts

by Thomas P. Umile (Editor)

Overview

Catalysis for Sustainability: Goals, Challenges, and Impacts explores the intersection between catalytic science and sustainable technologies as a means to addressing current economic, social, and environmental problems. These problems include harnessing alternative energy sources, pollution prevention and remediation, and the manufacturing of comm

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781040054314
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	08/05/2015
Series:	ISSN
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	214
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Thomas P. Umile joined the Division of Natural and Computational Sciences at Gwynedd Mercy University in 2014 as assistant professor of chemistry. He completed his undergraduate studies in 2006 at the University of Scranton, where he studied microwave-assisted organic reactions and green chemistry with Michael C. Cann. Afterward, he joined the laboratory of John T. Groves at Princeton University, receiving his PhD in 2012 for the development of chlorine dioxide-generating metalloporphyrin catalysts. Prior to his faculty appointment, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Villanova University, where he taught organic chemistry and worked with Kevin P.C. Minbiole to isolate and characterize bioactive small molecules from microbial sources. His academic interests include the isolation and characterization of natural products and infusing undergraduate courses with green chemistry and sustainability.

Table of Contents

Catalysts and Sustainability. Transition Metal Catalysis for Organic Synthesis. Application of Organocatalysis in Sustainable Synthesis. Learning from Biology: Biomimetic Catalysis. Biocatalytic Solutions for Green Chemistry. Montmorillonite Clays as Heterogeneous Catalysts for Organic Reactions. Harnessing Solar Energy: Transition Metal Catalysts for the Water Oxidation Process. Life Cycle Thinking Informs Catalysis Choice and Green Chemistry.