Green Chemistry Textbooks & Printed Resources

This page highlights several green chemistry textbooks, manuals and booklets for educators. These learning materials are available for purchase through ACS or other publishers and are written for audiences ranging from undergraduate non-chemistry majors to chemistry professionals.

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Featured Resources

Chemistry in Context, 10th Edition

Editor: American Chemical Society
Level: Undergrad, non-chemistry majors; Intro to chemistry

A textbook for non-science majors
Teach chemistry in the context of everyday life and examine world issues through a science lens!

Introduction to Green Chemistry, 3rd Edition

Authors: Albert Matlack
Level: Undergrad chemistry majors through professional

Updated in 2022 with new and expanded topics! This textbook features supplemtary exercises relevant to the chemical examples introduced in each chapter.

General Green Chemistry & Sustainability

Chemistry for Changing Times, 13th Edition

Authors: John W. Hill, Terry W. McCreary, Doris K. Kolb
Level: Undergrad, non-chemistry majors

Chemistry in Context, 10th Edition

Editor: American Chemical Society
Level: Undergrad, non-chemistry majors; Intro to chemistry

Green Chemistry Fundamentals and Applications

Authors: Suresh Ameta and Rakshit Ameta
Level: Undergrad chemistry majors through professional

Green Chemistry: An Introductory Text, 2nd Edition

Author: Mike Lancaster
Level: Undergrad chemistry majors through professional

Green Chemistry Laboratory Manual for General Chemistry Csm Lab Edition

Author: Sally A. Henrie
Level: Undergrad

Encouraging them to investigate the practice of green chemistry.

Green Chemistry: Theory and Practice

Authors: Paul Anastas and John Warner
Level: Undergrad chemistry majors through professional

Handbook of Green Chemistry and Technology 1st Edition

Author: James H. Clark and Duncan Macquarrie
Level: Undergrad through professonal

Introduction to Green Chemistry, 3rd Edition

Authors: Albert Matlack
Level: Undergrad chemistry majors through professional

Green Organic Chemistry

Green Organic Chemistry and Its Interdisciplinary Applications

Author: Dr. Vera M. Kolb
Level: Undergrad chemistry majors through professional

Green Techniques for Organic Synthesis and Medicinal Chemistry

Editors: Wei Zhang, Berkeley Cue
Level: Undergrad chemistry majors through professional

New Trends in Green Chemistry

Authors: V. K. Ahluwalia and M. Kidwai
Level: Undergrad chemistry majors through professional

Sustainable Catalysis: Challenges and Practices for the Pharmaceutical and Fine Chemical Industries

Authors: Peter J. Dunn, K. K. (Mimi) Hii, Michael J. Krische, Michael T. Williams
Level: Undergrad chemistry majors through professional

Biochemistry & Green Chemistry

Introduction to Chemicals from Biomass (Wiley Series in Renewable Resource) 2nd Edition

Editors: James Clark and Fabien Deswarte
Level: Undergrad through professional

Bioinspiration and Biomimicry in Chemistry: Reverse-Engineering Nature

Editor: Gerhard Swiegers; Forewards by Jean-Marie Lehn and Janine Benyus
Level: Undergrad chemistry majors through professional

Engineering

Green Chemistry and Engineering: A Pathway to Sustainability

Authors: Anne E. Marteel-Parish and Martin A. Abraham
Level: Undergrad chemistry and engineering majors

Green Chemistry & Engineering: A Practical Design Approach

Authors: Concepción Jiménez-González and David J.C. Constable
Level: Undergrad chemistry majors through professional

Environmental & Toxicological Chemistry

Fundamentals of Environmental and Toxicological Chemistry: Sustainable Science, 4th Edition

Author: Stanley E. Manahan
Level: Undergrad chemistry majors through professional

Renewable Energy & Green Chemistry

Efficiency and Sustainability in the Energy and Chemical Industries, 2nd Edition

Editors: Krishman Sankaranarayanan, Hedzer J. van der Kooi, Jakob de Swaan Arons
Level: Undergrad chemistry majors through professional

Laboratory Manuals

Experiments in Green and Sustainable Chemistry

Editors: Herbert W. Roesky, Dietmar Kennepohl; Foreword by Jean-Marie Lehn
Level: Undergrad chemistry majors through professional

Green Organic Chemistry in Lecture and Laboratory

Editor: Andres Dicks
Level: Undergrad chemistry majors through professional

Green Organic Chemistry: Strategies, Tools, and Laboratory Experiments

Authors: Kenneth Doxsee and James Hutchison
Level: Undergrad chemistry majors through professional

Greener Approaches to Undergraduate Chemistry Experiments

Editors: Mary Kirchhoff and Mary Ann Ryan
Level: Undergrad chemistry majors

Other Green Chemistry Reference Materials

Going Green: Integrating Green Chemistry into the Curriculum

Editors: Mary Kirchhoff and Mary Ann Ryan
Level: Teachers from middle school level up to undergraduate level

Innovations in Green Chemistry and Green Engineering: Selected Entries from the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology

Editors: Paul Anastas and Julie Zimmerman
Level: Undergrad chemistry majors through professional

Introduction to Green Chemistry: Instructional Activities for Introductory Chemistry

Editors: Mary Ann Ryan and Michael Tinnesand
Level: High school and undergrad

Real-World Cases in Green Chemistry, Volume II

Authors: Michael C. Cann, Thomas P. Umile
Level: Undergrad chemistry majors through professional

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