Green chemistry in sustainable national development

Department of Chemistry, University of Delhi, Delhi-110 007, India E-mail : kidwai_chemistry@yahoo.co.uk Fax : 91-11-27666235 Manuscript received 6 June 2005 The green chemistry revolution provides an enormous number of oppourtunities to discover and apply new synthetic approaches using alternative feedstocks; ecofriendly reaction conditions, energy minimizations and the design of less toxic and inherently safer chemicals. The origin and basis of green chemistry chart for achieving environmental and economic prosperity inherent in a sustainable world. One important element of sustainable chemistry is commonly defined as the chemical research aiming at the optimization of chemical processes and products with respect to energy and material consumption, inherent safety, toxicity, environmental degradability, and so on. While considerable progress has been made in environmental chemistry, green chemistry, and the environmental assessment of chemical products but the societal aspect of sustainable chemistry remains to be recognized fully in all branches of chemical research, one prerequisite for this is the inclusion of sustainable chemistry into chemical education from the very beginning