Green Chemistry: A Path to Sustainable Development

Lalit Prasad · Shafat Ahmad Khan · Arvind Kumar Jain · Rajender S Varma

Mar 2025 · Elsevier

About this ebook

Green Chemistry: A Path to Sustainable Development provides updated information and knowledge on green chemistry, analyzes greener solutions for environmental sustainability, and includes principles and practices, metrics, green chemical technologies, and real-world applications. Chapters explore interdisciplinary approaches to green chemistry, as well as value added through by-products, conversion of waste to value added products, remodeling from a conventional approach to a greener approach, and the challenges, opportunities, and future scope of green chemistry. Finally, this book discusses green methodologies, processes, and new chemical development. - Evaluates greener approaches and methodologies for sustainability - Discusses new chemical processes and methodologies, recycling, and zero waste technologies - Explains broad spectrum utilization of greener products and processes in multi-product synthesis industries - Provides new insights for environmental sustainability, job opportunities, and economic development

About the author

Prof. Lalit Prasad (Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India 2013) is presently serving in the Division of Chemistry, School of Basic Sciences, Galgotias University, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India. He has more than a decade of teaching and research experience in the area of biofuels, renewable energy, interdisciplinary science, nanotechnology, and green chemical technologies. He has experience as a researcher in various national and international sponsored research projects. He has published more than 30 research papers and book chapters, 10 Indian patents (published) and 03 edited books. He also presented his research in more than 21 national and international conferences. He has supervised a number of master’s theses in the area of biofuels, nanoscience applied chemistry and in interdisciplinary research, supervised two Ph.D. thesis, and is currently supervising five Ph.D. students.

Shafat Ahmad Khan (PhD 2012, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, INDIA) has significant teaching and research experience in Organic Chemistry, Green Materials, and plant products (20+ publications, book chapters, h-index 10, 963 citations, 2 patents (filed), 1 edited book). Currently, he is working as Associate Professor in Galgotias University, Greater Noida, U.P., INDIA.

Dr. Arvind Kumar Jain is a Professor of Basic and Applied Sciences and Dean of Student Welfare in IILM University, Greater Noida, India, since 2024. He completed his PhD from IIT Roorkee in 2002. He then worked in France as a CNRS post-doctoral fellow in ICMCB CNRS at Bordeaux. His areas of expertise are nanotechnology, analytical chemistry, organic synthetic chemistry. He has delivered many invited talks at national and international levels and has published a large number of research papers in national and international journals and conference proceedings, He has also guided eight Ph.D. students and has published nine patents. He has visited countries like France, Germany, and Holland for his research activities.

Rajender S. Varma is a well-recognized researcher with extensive expertise in synthetic chemistry, green and sustainable chemistry, environmentally benign methodologies, alternative energy-assisted synthesis, and the development of efficient technologies for environmental remediation. His work spans multidisciplinary research program management and the advancement of innovative approaches for sustainable chemical processes. More recently, his research has focused on the design and assembly of nanomaterials and the application of magnetically recoverable nanocatalysts for sustainable transformations in environmentally friendly media. He has also served on the editorial advisory boards of several leading international journals and maintains active research collaborations across multiple countries.