Green Chemistry has been increasingly identified as a means for reducing hazards and waste in chemistry labs, while maintaining the necessary rigor for teaching fundamental reactions and techniques. Despite the underlying fundamental reliance on chemistry innovations for a more sustainable future, undergraduate chemistry teaching laboratories still rely on traditional experiments that are resource-intensive and employ hazardous reagents. To combat to this, the recently released ‘A Guide to Green Chemistry Experiments for Undergraduate Organic Chemistry Labs’ seeks to provide educators with a set of safer, greener alternative organic chemistry experiments to demonstrate key transformations at the undergraduate level and indicate quantifiable benefits when greener alternative experiments are implemented. Quantifiable benefits include waste reduction, hazard reduction, and cost savings. This presentation will highlight new organic chemistry laboratory exercises that introduce green chemistry and toxicology concepts through hazard awareness, allowing students to explore the questions: what does it mean for a chemical to be hazardous in a organic synthesis? And, how do I find credible hazard information? <br/>

Integrating green chemistry and chemical hazard awareness into organic chemistry lab curriculum

256th National Meeting (2018)

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