Michael Cann, Chemistry Department

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GREENING the chemistry curriculum now is the
time to infuse existing mainstream textbooks with
Green Chemistry!
Green Chemistry Engineering Conference Washingto
n, DC, June , 26, 2007

• Michael Cann, Chemistry Department
• http//academic.scranton.edu/faculty/CANNM1/greenc
  hemistry.html

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GREEN CHEMISTRY

• Pollution Prevention Act 1990
• GC Began in 1991 at EPA Design for Env
• 1996 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge
  Awards
• 1997 Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference
• 1999 Journal Green Chemistry
• Chemical and Engineering News
• 2000 GCI integrated into ACS
• 'Green chemistry' work wins Nobel CNN 10/5/05

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GREEN CHEMISTRYEducation

• Mid 1990s A few individuals at a handful of
  universities
• 1998 ACS/EPA Green Chemistry Educational
  Materials Development Project annotated
  bibliography, introductory activities, Real-World
  Cases in Green Chemistry, short courses
• 2001 NSF U of Oregon Workshop
• 2001 Journal of Chemical Education

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Green Chemistry Education

• ACS
• Greener Approaches to Undergraduate Chemistry
  Experiments (Spanish)
• Introduction to Green Chemistry
• Innovations for a
• Cleaner World (video)

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Green Chemistry Education

• University of Oregon
• NSF Workshop
• Green Organic Chemistry Strategies, Tools and
  Laboratory Experiments
• Green Education Materials for Chemists
• U Mass Lowell
• Carnegie Mellon
• Hendrix College
• University of Delaware
• Monash University
• York University
• Univ. of Scranton
• etc.

Kathryn Parent Mary Kirchhoff
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MAINSTREAMING GREEN CHEMISTRYGreen Chemistry in
MainstreamTextbooks How much, and in what format?

• Boxes within/end of the chapters?
• End of the chapter exercises?
• Web materials
• New book with green chemistry slant?
• Infusion (seamlessly?) within the body of the
  text?
• Other?

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Green Chemistry in Mainstream Textbooks a Survey

• Publishers web sites listed 141 undergraduate
  chemistry textbooks non-science majors,
  introductory/preparatory, general (lab), organic
  (lab), inorganic, analytical, physical,
  environmental, biochemistry
• Perused my shelves looked in the index for green
  chemistry
• SF ACS meeting 2006 -Visited the publishers
  booths at the exposition Can you please tell
  which of your textbooks have green chemistry in
  them?
• Follow-up survey of publishers spring 2007

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Green Chemistry in Mainstream Textbooks Survey
of Publishers

• Spring 2007, Contacted publishers reps via email
• Additional texts not on the list.
• For each text
• Is green chemistry listed in the index? yes or no
• Is green chemistry infused in the text? yes or no
• How is green chemistry inserted? Box(es) at the
  beginning, middle or end of the chapter? Is it
  infused within the chapter as part of the regular
  text? Are there green chemistry problems?
  Other? Please describe the nature of the green
  chemistry.

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Green Chemistry in Mainstream Textbooks Survey

• Publishers
• Benjamin Cummings, Prentice Hall, Houghton
  Mifflin Company, McGraw-Hill, Thomson, W. H.
  Freeman and Company, W.W. Norton Company, John
  Wiley Sons, and Jones and Bartlett Publishers

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Green Chemistry in Mainstream Textbooks Survey
Results -Publishers

• 33/141 (23) at least some mention of green
  chemistry

• Thomson 12
• Prentice Hall 6
• Houghton Mifflin 5
• WH Freeman 5
• McGraw Hill 4
• Wiley 1
• Benjamin Cummings 0
• Norton 0
• Jones Bartlett 0

• Thomson 12/2450
• Houghton Mifflin 5/1338
• WH Freeman 5/1533
• McGraw Hill 4/1233
• Prentice Hall 6/3716
• Wiley 1/225
• Benjamin Cummings 0
• Norton 0
• Jones Bartlett 0

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Green Chemistry in Mainstream Textbooks Survey
Results -Level

• Non science majors 7
• General chemistry 11
• Organic 7
• Organic lab 5
• Inorganic 1
• Environmental 3

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Green Chemistry in Mainstream Textbooks Survey
Results -Topics

• Most Frequent catalysts
• Next synthesis of iburprofen, ionic liquids,
  supercritical solvents, atom economy, pesticides,
  polymers, renewable feedstocks, and the
  principles of green chemistry
• Other topics recycling, the Presidential Green
  Chemistry Challenge Awards, replacement of CCA in
  pressure treated wood, replacement of lead in
  paints, blowing agents, nanotechnology, and
  microwave assisted reactions

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Green Chemistry in Mainstream Textbooks Books
that Stand OutNon-science Majors

• Chemistry in Context, 5th, 2006, Eubanks,
  Middlecamp, Pienta, Heltzel, Weaver, ACS McGraw
  Hill
• infused within the text intro and 7 examples
• -green chemistry icon
• -GC entries in the index, but not in TOC
• -started in 2000 with 3rd edition

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Green Chemistry in Mainstream Textbooks Books
that Stand OutNon-science Majors

• Chemistry for Changing Times, 11th, Hill Kolb,
  Prentice Hall
• -20 end of the chapter exercises, would like to
  see GC infused within the main topics of the text
  
• -16 different authors
• -separate green chemistry TOC
• -marketing telling reps to lead with this
• -back cover highlights green chemistry

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Green Chemistry in Mainstream Textbooks Books
that Stand OutGeneral Chemistry

• Chemical Principles, the Quest for Insight, 4th,
  2006, Atkins, Jones, WH Freeman,
• -short introduction, 3 examples infused into the
  text and 2 problems
• -green chemistry icons but only the intro is
  indexed and nothing in TOC

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Green Chemistry in Mainstream Textbooks Books
that Stand OutOrganic Chemistry disappointing

• Organic Chemistry 9th, 2008 Solomons, Fryhle,
  Wiley
• -Preface refers readers to ACS EPA for more
  info on GC PGCC awards mentioned in chap. 1, 3
  boxes within chapters
• - GC entries in the index, but not specifically
  as GC in TOC

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Green Chemistry in Mainstream Textbooks Books
that Stand OutOrganic Chemistry Laboratory

• Green Organic Chemistry Strategies, Tools, and
  Laboratory Experiments, 2004, Doxsee Hutchison,
  Thomson
• -19 examples of laboratories illustrating many
  traditional organic reactions and techniques but
  modified or completely revised to emphasize the
  tenets of green chemistry

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Green Chemistry in Mainstream Textbooks Books
that Stand OutInorganic Chemistry

• Inorganic Chemistry, 2nd, 2004Housecroft
  Sharpe, Prentice Hall
• -discussion of the 12 principles of green
  chemistry and 4 examples of green chemistry
  within the text

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Green Chemistry in Mainstream Textbooks Books
that Stand OutEnvironmental Chemistry

• Environmental Chemistry 8th, 2005, Manahan, CRC
• chapter Industrial Ecology and Green
  Chemistry several other references to green
  chemistry in text

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Green Chemistry in Mainstream Textbooks Books
that Stand OutEnvironmental Chemistry

• Environmental Chemistry 3rd, 2005, Baird, Cann,
  WH Freeman
• -Introduction to Green Chemistry, Fourteen
  different examples of green chemistry infused
  (seamlessly?) throughout existing topics in the
  text
• -GC icon
• -GC indexed as well as in TOC
• -brochures and cover emphasize GC

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Reviewers Comments

• The inclusion of green chemistry is the single
  most important improvement of the book.
• I consider green chemistry a critical topic and I
  have found it necessary to supplement the text.
  The addition is welcome by me and seems
  appropriate.
• Green chemistry is great to add, especially when
  it shows significant advances to be made by
  science in this area.
• The green chemistry adds greatly to the text.
• I enthusiastically approve of the green chemistry
  sections and plan to use them all.
• I think the information regarding the green
  chemistry topics is fantastic! I think this is a
  wonderful opportunity to bring in this field.
• I think it was a great addition I like it in
  this format. Yes! I love the inclusion of this
  subject matter!
• This certainly spices up the chapter.
• The green case is quite interesting. I did not
  know this before.
• I think these are crucial in illustrating the
  positive steps chemists are taking to address
  environmental issues.
• I really like the integration of green chemistry
  topics in the chapters. I believe that this is
  vital information for students to learn and I am
  very happy about the inclusion.

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The Chemistry Enterprise in 2015A Report of the
ACS 2005

• By 2015, the chemistry enterprise will be judged
  under a new paradigm of sustainability.
  Sustainable operations will become both
  economically and ethically essential.
• Conclusion Green Chemistry is ESSENTIAL!

http//chemistry.org/chemistryenterprise2015.html
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What Can YOU Do?!

• Ask book reps, textbook authors and publishers
  is there green chemistry in your book? Be
  reluctant to use it if there isnt
• Suggests ways to authors in which green chemistry
  can be infused into a particular book
• Get together a group to discuss who will go
  after which texts/authors/publishers
• Develop teams to infuse green chemistry
• Publish a list of texts that have infused green
  chemistry at GCI??? Website rate books and
  publishers?
• Incorporate green chemistry into ACS standardized
  exams
• ACS, EPA, NSF, NAS workshops for authors
  publishers on infusion of green chemistry into
  texts

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1991 Green Chemistry became a formal focus of
EPA

• 15 Years is plenty of time for evolution it is
  now time for revolution!

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Acknowledgements

• Marc Connelly, Tom Umile
• The Green Machine Trudy Dickneider, Tim Foley,
  David Marx, Donna Narsavage-Heald, Joan
  Wasilewski
• Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation
• American Chemical Society Sylvia Ware, Mary
  Kirchhoff, Janet Boese, Mary Ann Ryan
• Environmental Protection Agency Tracy
  Williamson, Rich Engler
• Green Chemistry Institute Paul Anastas, Kathryn
  Parent
• Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria,
• Maria de la Concepcion, Sebastian Perez
• Universidade Federal de Pelotas (UFPel)Eder J.
  Lenardãoa

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