Challenges in Green Analytical Chemistry

by Salvador Garrigues (Editor), Miguel de la Guardia (Editor)

Overview

Analytical techniques are employed every day in both, industry and academia. The concept of green analytical chemistry involves making analytical chemistry safer for operators, more sustainable for the environment and more economical. Improvements in the availability of renewable feedstocks, miniaturization, automated technology, and chemical recycling, make this a vibrant field of research.

This new edition of Challenges in Green Analytical Chemistry presents an overview of the latest tools and techniques for improving safety and sustainability in analytical chemistry. Covering topics including solvent selection, miniaturization and metrics for the evaluation of greenness, this book is a useful resource for researchers and application laboratories interested in reducing the risks and environmental impacts of analytical methods.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781839160295
Publisher:	Royal Society of Chemistry
Publication date:	05/05/2020
Series:	ISSN
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	378
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Salvador Garrigues is Full Professor of Analytical Chemistry at University of Valencia from 2006. His research has focused on sample preparation and spectroscopy, mainly in the field of vibrational one, applied to quantitative analysis, combined with automation and the use of chemometrics.
Miguel de la Guardia is Full Professor of Analytical Chemistry at University of Valencia from 1991. He has published more than 650 scientific papers and various books in the field of analytical chemistry and supervised more than 35 PhD Thesis of students from different countries.
From 1990 both authors collaborate and, in the frame of Solinquiana research team, have contributed to the development of “green Analytical Chemistry” (GAC), with different research projects and specialized books on this topic.
I am Professor of Analytical Chemistry in Valencia University (Spain). I received my MsSc from Valencia in 1976 and my PhD degree from the same university in 1979 with a thesis about The use of emulsions in Atomic Spectroscopy. I was promoted to Associate Professor in 1985 and from 1991 I am full professor in my university. During this time I have been member of a powerful research team with a staff involving Prof. Agustin Pastor (Chromatography studies), Prof. M. Luisa Cervera (Atomic Spectrometry), Prof. Angel Morales (Automation and micro-wave assisted methodologies) and Prof. Salvador Garrigues (Vibrational Spectrometry) and many post-doctoral colleagues, friends and students who have cooperated for the publication of more than 400 research papers in international journals, from which 338 have been correctely included in the ISI web of Science My current research is focused on the automation of analytical methods through multicommutation, sample preparation procedures for both, elemental analysis and speciation, and for chromatography and spectrometry determinations and quantitative vibrational spectrometry in the FTIR, NIR and Raman fields. Other major topics of my research are Chemometrics, Development of green analytical methods and Development of portable spectrometers. I have supervised 29 PhD thesis and participate in many analytical symposia through the world being invited speaker in France, Germany, Italy, Brazil, Venezuela, Morocco, Turkey, China, Norway, UK, USA, Colombia, Egypt, Uruguay, Argentina, Switzerland, Belgium. I am member of the editorial board of Spectroscopy Letters (USA), Ciencia (Venezuela), J. Braz. Chem. Soc. (Brazil) and I was member of the Advisory board of Analytica Chimica Acta from 1995 to 2000. I am currently consultant of the government of Portugal, Italy, Argentina and China for the evaluation of research proposals and grants and I am requested by several journals to act as reviewer.

Table of Contents

Past, Present and Future of Green Analytical Chemistry; Direct Analysis by Green Spectroscopy and Spectrometry; Sensors as Green Tools; Innocuous and Less Hazardous Reagents; Greening Sample Preparation: New Solvents, New Sorbents; Flow Analysis: A Powerful Tool for Green Analytical Chemistry; (Bio)electroanalysis in the Field of Greener Analytical Chemistry; Green Solvents for Analytical Chemistry; Green Chromatography: State-of-the-art, Opportunities and Future Perspectives; Chemometrics as a Green Analytical Tool; Evaluation of the Greenness of Analytical Procedures