SUBJECT

Laboratory Practice: Green Chemistry

practical

Master

Faculty of Science

Chemistry MSc

4

Semesters 1-4

Autumn/Spring semester

The course provides advanced training on the fundamentals and applications of green chemistry:

1. Halogenation of alkenes.

2. Dehydration of alcohols.

3. Synthesis of cyclohexane and adipic acid.

4. Porphyrine synthesis.

5. Microwave assisted synthesis.

6. Diels-Alder reaction.

7. Bioethanol synthesis.

8. Benzoin condensation.

9. Pechman reaction.

10. Sun-light conversion.

Compulsory:

• For details see http://www.greenchemistry.chem.elte.hu/

• James E. Hutchington, Kenneth M. Doxee; Green Chemistry in Education Workshop (University of Oregon) 

• K. L. Williamson, Macroscale and Microscale Organic Experiments, 2nd Ed. 1994, Houghton Mifflin

Suggested: 

• P.T.Anastas, J.C. Warner: Green Chemistry, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998