Selected articles on green chemistry advances in industrial processes

Future Challenges of Clean Production, A Johansson & T Loikkanen, Global Environment Industry, 2000 (January), 49
A Business Briefing

Clean technology- The key to future success of chemistry based industries, M Lancaster, Global Environment Industry, 2000 (January), 54
A Business Briefing

Lilly Research Laboratories - use of a biocatalyst, Paul Anastas, Mary Kirchoff and Tracy Williamson, Green Chemistry, 1999 (December), 6, G175
A short profile on one of the 1999 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award winners

Biofine - economic conversion of cellulosic biomass to chemicals, Paul Anastas, Mary Kirchoff and Tracy Williamson, Green Chemistry, 1999 (October), 5, G124
A short profile on one of the 1999 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award winners

Nalco Chemical Company- new family of water soluble polymer dispersions, Paul Anastas, Mary Kirchoff and Tracy Williamson, Green Chemistry, 1999 (October), 5, G125.
A short profile on one of the 1999 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award winners

SPINOSAD - a new natural product for insect control, Paul Anastas, Mary Kirchchoff & Tracy Williamson, Green Chemistry, 1999 (August), 4, G88
A short profile on one of the 1999 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award winners

Green Chemistry - evolution or revolution, Stuart Cook, Green Chemistry , 1999 (October), 5, G138.
Describes how an elderly multistage production process has been made green by an innovative evolutionary strategy applied to existing technology

Butanediol via Maleic Anhydride, N M Harris, Hydrocarbon Processing 69, 1990, 5, 79.
Describes the Davy McKee butanediol process and associated environmental and economic benefits.

Fine-tuning polypropylene, G Arzoumanidis & N M Karayannis, Chemtech, 1993, 23, 43.
Describes industrial development in the polypropylene process culminating in the full exploitation of a solventless process

New Process for producing Polycarbonate without Phosgene and Methylene Chloride, ACS Preprint, Division of Environmental Chemistry 34, 1994, No 2 , 343.
Describes the Asahi Chemical Industry's non-phosgene process to produce isocyanates and polycarbonates.

A "Growth" Industry: Renewable Raw Materials, Ian Bartle & Nigel Oliver, Green Chemistry1999 (February), 1, G6.
The independent UK agency set up to promote the development of non-food crops

Ecological Production, BASF, Leather, March 1995, 86.
Describes new leather production processes which minimise waste whilst reducing the amount of toxic chemicals employed.

Taking Green Chemistry from Laboratory to Chemical Plant, James Bashkin, Roger Rains & Michael Stern, Green Chemistry, 1999 (April), 2, G41
Developing a new route to 4-aminodiphenylamine (4-ADPA).

The Significance of Green Chemistry to Specialised Organics SMEs, Christopher Drew, Green Chemistry, 1999 (June), 3, G63
Christopher Drew from SORIS claims that the specialised organics sector is the original "green chemistry".

Waste Minimisation-the Don Rother Dearne Project, Becky Allen, Green Chemistry, 1999 (June), 3, G72
Becky Allen reports on two dozen small-to-medium-sized companies in South Yorkshire which are on course to net over £1 million a year in savings through waste minimisation.