Green Chemistry Web Sites
Introduction to Green Chemistry and the 12 principles.
List of Green chemistry Resources
Presidental Green Chemistry Challenge Awards
Preparation for the Green Chemistry Presentation:
The major requirement is to make a presentation detailing one of the Presidentail Green Chemistry Challenge (PGCC) proposals or award winners. The UK Green Chemistry winners may also be used.
1. Use the websites above to learn more about Green Chemistry, view modules and examples of some prior winnners (these are not acceptable for your presentation since all of the work has already been done).
2. Select a proposal or award winnner and submit the title and minimal details to the seminar instructor for approval. At the same time select a faculty mentor to work with you on the development of the presentation.
3. Research the background of the proposal, including the prior state of the science/technology and how the subject of the proposal improves the science/technology, particularly from the environmental standpoint. The research may entail, web searching, journal searching, and/or chemical abstract searching. you need to find at least one or two chemical journal articles concerning the topic and one or more general literature or web type articles. An article in J. Chem. Educ. suggests that you might even contact the person(s) listed on the proposal for more information.
4. The presentation should be in Power Point format and include all of the other points listed on the presentation handout.