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Environmentally Benign Organic Solvent: A Green Approach

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Green Organic Reactions

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Solvents play an imperative task in chemical reactions. In recent years, green and sustainable chemistry has demanded the improvement of new synthetic protocols that shrink waste and environment hazardous compounds which is a major concern in all fields and also in industry. Most of the chemical processes during fine chemical synthesis in research laboratory or in chemical industry entail solution phase for making the reaction medium homogeneous and allowing more reacting molecular interactions, and therefore, organic solvents are usually the first option for that. Solvents are needed both in reaction as well as in separation or purification steps either by extraction or by recrystallization. The major disadvantages of some solvents involve their pyrophoric nature, poor recovery, and high volatility. Therefore, majority of such solvents are associated with their hazardous nature which cause numerous ill effects toward human health and environment. This chapter summarizes the importance of green solvents over conventional solvents toward organic synthetic approaches.

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One of the authors B.M. is thankful to Council of Science Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi, for financial support.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, University of North Bengal, Siliguri, West Bengal, India

    Bijeta Mitra & Pranab Ghosh

  2. Department of Food Technology, University of North Bengal, Siliguri, West Bengal, India

    Gyan Chandra Pariyar

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    Salim Saranya

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Mitra, B., Pariyar, G.C., Ghosh, P. (2021). Environmentally Benign Organic Solvent: A Green Approach. In: Anilkumar, G., Saranya, S. (eds) Green Organic Reactions. Materials Horizons: From Nature to Nanomaterials. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-6897-2_10

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