Green analytical chemistry approaches on environmental analysis

Green analytical chemistry is a comprehensive perspective that aims to reduce or eliminate the toxic and harmful solvents, reagents, and techniques in the preparation, pre-treatment, and determination steps of an analysis process. With the increase in environmental pollution in recent years, awareness has been increasing in terms of both the contamination analysis of environmental sources and the more environmentally friendly analysis methods. This review evaluates the solvents such as bio-based solvents and deep eutectic solvents, nanomaterials synthesized by non-toxic methods, the greener changes in the extraction methods, and chromatographic techniques considering the most recent studies. In particular, trying to make the methods used to analyze environmental samples safer and less toxic is an important point that overlaps with the green approach, which aims to minimize environmental pollution. In this context, this review provides information on green analytical chemistry-based environmental applications covering the last ten years so that the applications of this approach can be examined and understood in more detail and can be applied by other researchers.     

Green chemistry of polyurethanes

The current state and the main problems in a new field of macromolecular compounds—green chemistry of polyurethanes—based on cyclocarbonate reactions with amines, including those with cyclocarbonate-containing oligomers from renewable vegetable raw material, are briefly discussed.     

Green solvent-based approaches for synthesis of nanomaterials

The use of green solvents (including supercritical fluids and ionic liquids) in the synthesis of nanomaterials is highlighted. The methods described can not only reduce or eliminate the use or generation of substances hazardous to health and the environment, but can also be used to efficiently prepare nanomaterials with high performances. The unique characteristics of green solvents are responsible for the green features and unusual advantages of these approaches.     

Systems thinking approaches for international green chemistry education

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Radiochemical approaches to fullerene chemistry

Nuclear and radiochemistry offers special and attractive possibilities for exploring the fascinating world of closed-shell carbon cages called fullerenes. This review presents a panoramic view on the use of radioactivity, nuclear irradiation and instrumental nuclear techniques in the elucidation of the structure and composition of fullerenes and their compounds.     

Genetic approaches to protein purification

A gene fusion system based on the protein A gene from Staphylococcus aureus has been developed to facilitate purification of recombinant proteins, both in large and small scale. Due to the strong interaction with IgG, it is possible to recover gene products fused to various protein A derivatives, in a one-step procedure with high yield and in purity. Site-directed mutagenesis was used to introduce enzymatic and chemical cleavage sites at the fusion point between the protein A derivative and the desired protein. The protein A “tail” can thereby be removed from the affinity purified fusion protein by the appropriate cleavage, releasing biologically active molecules. Recently, the system was improved by designing a synthetic DNA fragment encoding two IgG-binding domains derived from staphylococcal protein A which are resistant to various chemical cleavages. The gene fusion product is secreted to the culture medium of E.coli and can be recovered simply by passing the clarified culture medium through an IgG Fast Flow Sepharose. The system has been used to immobilize enzymes, to obtain monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies and to produce biologically active human peptide hormones in pilot plant scale.     

Novel approaches to the purification of penicillin acylase

Penicillin acylase ofE. coli NCIM 2400 has been purified to homogeneity using a combination of hydrophobic interaction chromatography and DEAE-cellulose treatment. A variety of substituted matrices were synthesized using D- or DL-phenylglycine, norleucine, ampicillin, or amoxycillin as ligands, all of which retained penicillin acylase at high concentrations of ammonium sulfate or sodium sulfate. The enzyme could be eluted nonbiospecifically by buffer of lower ionic strength with over 95% recovery of the activity. Ammonium chloride, ammonium nitrate, sodium chloride, sodium nitrate, and potassium chloride were ineffective in either adsorption or elution of the enzyme on these columns. Further purification of this partially pure enzyme with DEAE-cellulose at pH 7.0–7.2 yielded an enzyme preparation of very high purity according to electrophoretic and ultracentrifugal analyses, its specific activity being as high as 37 U/mg protein. The purifiedf enzyme has a molecular weight of 67,000 a sedimentation coefficient of 4.0S, and resolves into two forms upon isoelectric focusing. Overall recoveries ranged between 75 and 85%. Ease of operation, high recoveries, high purity of the enzyme and prolonged reuse of the conjugates make the process economically feasible and possibly of great commercial importance.     

Green chemistry in the bulk chemicals industry

The bulk chemicals industry is a branch of the chemical industry whose assortment includes key organic synthesis products and intermediates. The world output of these products is as large as millions of tons. This scale requires the use of not only maximally inexpensive raw materials but also the most selective and energy-efficient processes for converting them into target products. This paper considers the examples of changing the sources of raw materials and developing catalysts and processes to minimize environmental disruption. The majority of these new processes have been introduced into industry well before the appearance of the term green chemistry; their development has been stimulated by not only environmental protection but also economic reasons.     

Green process chemistry in the pharmaceutical industry

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Key factors for deriving environmentally sustainable processes in the synthesis of pharmaceutical intermediates and products are discussed. The selection and use of solvents is emphasized as regards methods to minimize environmental impact. Case studies of successful process development to attain improved green processes are included.     

Green chemistry for large-scale synthesis of semiconductor quantum dots

Large-scale synthesis of semiconductor nanocrystals or quantum dots (QDs) with high concentration and high yield through simultaneously increasing the precursor concentration was introduced. This synthetic route conducted in diesel has produced gram-scale CdSe semiconductor quantum dots (In optimal scale-up synthetic condition, the one-pot yield of QDs is up to 9.6g). The reaction has been conducted in open air and at relatively low temperature at 190-230 degrees C in the absence of expensive organic phosphine ligands, aliphatic amine and octadecene, which is really green chemistry without high energy cost for high temperature reaction and unessential toxic chemicals except for Cd, which is the essential building block for QDs.     

Green synthetic approaches for biologically relevant organic compounds

The present review aims to present some framework of the effective and diverse green methodologies in conventional and unconventional media including water, solar energy, ionic liquids, ultrasonication and bio-based catalysts which constitute an important goal in organic synthesis and can be used to strengthen conventional laboratory techniques.     

Green chemistry of chromate cleaner production

Research topics and methods of green chemistry in chromate production are introduced in this paper . New original green chemical process of the heterogeneous reaction and separation system of liquid phase oxidation of chromite in molten salt of sodium hydroxide-one way separation in high concentration medium-metastable phase separation-carbonate recycle conversion has been developed. The green commercial process for comprehensive utilization of mineral resources-reactant recycle inside the process-zero emission was established .     

New analytical approaches in clinical chemistry

Millions of chemical analyses are performed in clinical laboratories every day, and the demand of the medical profession for increasingly accurate and specific assays continues to grow. This has resulted in the development of many new techniques and, just as important, the use of proven analytical systems in novel ways.     

Green analytical chemistry: Opportunities for pharmaceutical quality control

This review article summarizes the opportunities for utilizing the green analytical chemistry (GAC) techniques and principles in the field of quality control (QC) of pharmaceuticals. Green analytical chemistry is considered a branch of the green chemistry based on the principles overlapping with the goals of sustainable development. General definitions of quality and quality control, the principles of GAC, proposals for greener sample pretreatment and greener chromatographic method of analysis applied in QC laboratories are discussed herein. The main goal is to achieve more eco-friendly analysis in QC laboratories through different strategies and techniques, replace toxic reagents, and modify or replace analytical methods and/or techniques with safer ones, making it possible to dramatically reduce the amounts of reagents consumed and waste generated.     

Green approaches for the synthesis of nucleotides,their conjugates and analogues

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We have developed original one-pot and protecting group-free approaches, which are also user-friendly and reliable, to synthesize nucleotides and derivatives starting from nucleoside 5’-monophosphates. Both methods present convenient set-up, i.e., non-dry solvents and reagents, substrates in their sodium or acid form, and commercially available and cheap phosphorus reagents as sodium and potassium salts.     

Factor analytical approaches for evaluating groundwater trace element chemistry data

The multivariate statistical techniques principal component analysis (PCA), Q-mode factor analysis (QFA), and correspondence analysis (CA) were applied to a dataset containing trace element concentrations in groundwater samples collected from a number of wells located downgradient from the potential nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. PCA results reflect the similarities in the concentrations of trace elements in the water samples resulting from different geochemical processes. QFA results reflect similarities in the trace element compositions, whereas CA reflects similarities in the trace elements that are dominant in the waters relative to all other groundwater samples included in the dataset. These differences are mainly due to the ways in which data are preprocessed by each of the three methods.

The highly concentrated, and thus possibly more mature (i.e. older), groundwaters are separated from the more dilute waters using principal component 1 (PC 1). PC 2, as well as dimension 1 of the CA results, describe differences in the trace element chemistry of the groundwaters resulting from the different aquifer materials through which they have flowed. Groundwaters thought to be representative of those flowing through an aquifer composed dominantly of volcanic rocks are characterized by elevated concentrations of Li, Be, Ge, Rb, Cs, and Ba, whereas those associated with an aquifer dominated by carbonate rocks exhibit greater concentrations of Ti, Ni, Sr, Rh, and Bi. PC 3, and to a lesser extent dimension 2 of the CA results, show a strong monotonic relationship with the percentage of As(III) in the groundwater suggesting that these multivariate statistical results reflect, in a qualitative sense, the oxidizing/reducing conditions within the groundwater. Groundwaters that are relatively more reducing exhibit greater concentrations of Mn, Cs, Co, Ba, Rb, and Be, and those that are more oxidizing are characterized by greater concentrations of V, Cr, Ga, As, W, and U.     

Green chemistry: Analytical and chromatography

Nowadays, the environment protection and the personal health and safety are given more consideration in the field of chemistry, thus resulting in an increased number of published researches about how to work according to green instructions, to follow up the recommendations of environmental agencies and to obtain better clean handling of chemistry. In this review, green chemistry definition, importance, principles, and some recent applications in the field of green chemistry were discussed. In addition, the review summarizes the evolution of green analytical chemistry (GAC) with its specific principles and how to make the analytical process more environmentally benign with special emphasis on recent applications of GAC. Moreover, the green chromatography, its methods, and some of its applications were outlined. Finally, different techniques available up till now for the assessment of greening of the methods were also presented.