McGraw-Hill Education, 2015. — 561 p. — ISBN: 978-0-0718-2669-3This book is educational, informative, and extremely challenging. The question arises: How is it possible to cover all possible areas under the general title of this book? Ordinarily, of course, this would be impossible. Instead, Dr. Thomas DeRosa has chosen a number of interesting and pertinent examples from the most current patents and used them to exemplify general principles that can be used in innovative synthetic and preparative methods. The text identifies areas of active research and development in both academic and industrial laboratories that are devising sustainable and renewable chemical methods. These laboratories are actively pursuing the development of the next generation of chemical agents that are cost effective and environmentally friendly. By using the most current patent literature, the author has spared no effort in identifying and illustrating research facilities that are producing industrially significant chemicals while reducing or eliminating chemical toxins and by-products associated with these processes. In a dramatic and fundamental way, Dr. DeRosa has identified and illustrated sustainable chemical methods for the active chemist to safely prepare reagents, industrial materials, and polymers.
Engineering Green Chemical Processes: Renewable and Sustainable Design has devoted a considerable amount of effort toward the preparation of renewable consumer goods and products. The author illustrates how existing renewable chemical processes can be utilized to produce new consumer items or adapted to prepare existing consumer items. The viability of renewable and sustainable chemistries and processes is completely dependent on economics. To address this concern, Dr. DeRosa provides numerous costeffective product formulations containing renewable and sustainable compounds. In all cases, the consumer item is less expensively prepared and waste disposal and personnel protection concerns are eliminated. In addition, processing parameters for preparing consumer goods using formulations additized with renewable chemical agents require less energy input and generate products that do not require purification. It is my final objective in this foreword to challenge the reader to think outside the box to develop innovative and viable chemical methods.
