CHEMISTRY: Guest in a Green Solvent

Guest in a Green Solvent

Soon, a decision will be made by the U.S. Secretary of Energy on whether to recommend Yucca Mountain in Nevada as the site for storage of highlevel radioactive waste. The waste would be stored in what is known as the saturated zone at Yucca Mountain. Here, water from rain and snow percolate downward to the water table, traveling along fractures in the rocks through the mountain and the reposito...

Interfacial Chemistry in Solvent

Green chemistry.

Gilbert's chemistry sets, those that many of today's practicing chemists received as children, proved to be the spark that ignited many a lifelong exploration of the wonders of chemistry. While DuPont was espousing its contributions to the world with its motto, "Better living through chemistry," children were using the popular Gilbert's chemistry sets to perform the simplest experiments and vie...

Green chemistry

Since their initial appearance in the scientific literature, the terms "green" and "sustainable" have been increasingly used and are nowadays ubiquitously present in the terminology of several research areas. The seminal origin of what is considered “green chemistry” today might be ascribed to the launch of the Responsible Care® initiative by the American Chemistry Council (ACC) [1] and to the ...

Host-guest chemistry of tolbutamide.

The molecular recognition features of tolbutamide with four synthetic hosts have been studied by means of NMR titrations, NOESY experiments and Monte Carlo (MC) conformational search. The interaction strength and the most probable structure reveal new insights on the recognition phenomena of this urea derivative in comparison with close related compounds.