Green Chemistry Letters and Reviews
The new journal: "Green Chemistry Letters & Reviews," with John Warner as Editor-in-Chief, has launched! Visit Taylor & Francis' Site to review the inaugural issue's table of contents Contents
The journal is also accepting submissions for future issues.
Press Release & News
Technical Talks at the Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference
Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 11:30 AM
Direct Analysis in Real Time (DART)/ High Resolution Mass Spectrometry: Green Chemistry Applications
New York (Capital Hilton) 4
Ted H. E. Mendum and John C. Warner. Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry, Woburn, MA Direct Analysis in Real Time (DART) is a recently introduced sample introduction technique for mass spectroscopy which is performed in the open atmosphere and requires no sample preparation. When coupled with a high-resolution high-accuracy mass spectrometer, identification of the composition of mixtures is especially facile. This technology is often used for the analysis of finished products. The potential for Green Chemistry is in the identification of toxic or harmful reaction byproducts at low but significant levels EARLY in the synthetic process. Including this type of analysis at a time when scale-up and eventual production are still being designed, when it is cheaper and simpler to adjust reaction conditions and purification steps, allows for a more sustainable outcome. GC&E
Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 2:30 PM
Surface Structure and Green Chemistry in the Organic Solid State
Federal Room B (Capital Hilton) 27
John C. Warner and Donna Guarrera. Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry, Woburn, MA The field of noncovalent derivatization involves the design of molecular complexes [co-crystalline or eutectic] to manipulate bulk physical properties. Various structure activity relationships regarding hydrogen bonding, pi-stacking and lipophilic interactions have been established and have been demonstrated to be adequate predictors of lattice structure to physical behavior. This presentation will provide an update of recent activities exploring these structure activity relationships.GC&E
Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 10:35 AM
Photo Polymer Systems for Environmentally Benign Preparation of Films and Coatings
South American AB (Capital Hilton) 148
Emily Stoler and John C. Warner. Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry, Woburn, MA The addition of photochemically active moieties to a polymer structure allows materials to be made that can undergo post-synthesis reactions. Because the photoactive materials are embedded covalently to the polymers, there is no leaching of reagents in the final products. Aqueous coating systems have been designed to undergo various phototransformations that affects properties including solubility, strength and polymer/surface compatibility. This technology presents an environmentally benign method for the preparation of numerous industrially relevant films, masks and coatings.GC&E
Warner Receives Leadership AwardMay 4, 2008 Washington, D.C.
John C. Warner, President and Chief Technology Officer of the Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry and Director of the Beyond Benign Foundation, was honored on May 4 by the Council of Scientific Society Presidents with their Leadership in Science award for founding the field of “Green Chemistry.” The honor was shared with Green Chemistry co-founder, Paul Anastas.
The Council of Scientific Society Presidents is an organization of presidents, presidents-elect, and recent past presidents of about sixty scientific federations and societies whose combined membership numbers well over 1.4 million scientists and science educators. Council membership spans the top elected officers of the full spectrum of physical, mathematical, and life sciences, and science and mathematics education.
“I am honored and pleased to present the award to John Warner,” said Council President, Martin Apple, “for his strategic pioneering initiatives that created the first PhD program in Green Chemistry, for his co-authorship of Green Chemistry: Theory and Practice that spread the 12 principles of Green Chemistry worldwide and continues to prevent millions of kilograms hazardous chemicals from entering the environment, for his effective editing of Green Chemistry Letters and Reviews; for his frontier research leading to many pioneering green chemistry patents, he has shown important leadership.”