The right chemistry: green chemistry offers industry a way to reduce regulatory and clean-up costs with the proverbial ounce of prevention.(GREEN ECONOMY)

From: The American Prospect | Date: April 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

WHEN THE 2005 NOBEL PRIZE in chemistry was announced last October in Stockholm, the new laureates--Yves Chauvin of the Institute Francais du Petrole, Robert Grubbs of Caltech, and Richard Schrock of MIT--won recognition for creating "fantastic opportunities for producing new molecules." They had explained and developed a reaction known as metathesis, which allows chemists to selectively design organic molecules by trading atoms across different compounds. In search of an analogy to help the pubic grasp this concept, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences likened the process to ...

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