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Green Chemistry

Green chemistry is the utilization of a set of principles that reduces or eliminates the use or generation of hazardous substances in the design, manufacture and application of chemical products.

Terry Collins, Thomas Lord Professor of Chemistry, is the Director of the Institute for Green Oxidation Chemistry and the principal advisor of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows working in the Institute.

In 1999, Dr. Collins received the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Academic Award for the successful development of a series of environmentally friendly oxidant activators based on iron.

Green Chemistry links
Carnegie Mellon chemist honored for work on wood pulp bleaching
"Green" Chemist Terry Collins Receives Thomas Lord Professorship
Information about Green Chemistry (from the American Chemical Society)
Undergraduates doing research in Green Chemistry.