Green Chemistry: Resolving Conflict Between Environment and Development

Green chemistry is placed in the frontier areas of research to design the processes that reduce or eliminate the use and generation of hazardous substances. It is accepted that most of today’s industry is unsustainable by design so there is an urgent need for more environmentally acceptable processes in the chemical industries. Green chemistry launch new technologies that are cleaner and economically competitive rather than accepting waste generation and disposal as unavoidable. Green chemistry provides 12 green paths for different synthetic routes using non- hazardous solvents and environmental- friendly chemicals. The attractive concept of green chemistry is solvent free reactions. Solvent free reactions can be accelerating by microwave activation. At present, most widely used new alternative solvents are ionic liquids and supercritical fluids. In green chemistry, the concept of atom economy is to conduct chemical reaction where all the atoms that go into process come out either incorporated in the products or marketable side products. Photochemistry and electrochemistry are also green chemistry methods leaving no or less residue to be removed in the workup of a reaction. The major aim of this article is to discuss emerging trends in environment management to solve the burning environmental problem with continues progress in development.