Sustainable Inorganic Chemistry

The Earth's natural resources are finite and easily compromised by contamination from industrial chemicals and the degradation of consumer products. Green Chemistry seeks to protect the Earth's natural resources by creating products and processes that are environmentally benign while remaining economically viable. Inorganic Chemistry plays a critical role in this endeavor in areas such as resource extraction and isolation, renewable energy, catalytic processes, waste minimization and avoidance, and renewable industrial feedstocks. This area of research and development has been expanding rapidly over the past decade with symposia, conferences, and new journals dedicated to the subject. The present volume provides a comprehensive description of the many new developments taking place in articles that provide explanatory information alongside cutting-edge sustainable inorganic chemistry developments. The book includes reviews from leading scientists on the following broad range of topics: Solar energy conversion, Harnessing Wind power, Renewable and Clean Fuels, Renewable industrial feedstocks, Waste minimization, Alternative reaction conditions, Clean oxidation technologies, Solid-supported reagents, Homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis, Biological catalysis, Photocatalysts and Consumer products. The articles from this volume will be published online as part of the Encyclopedia of Inorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781119951438