Green Chemistry

By
Prof.Nagendrappa

Metathesis

The 2005 Nobel Prize for Chemistry was awarded for developing, over several decades, an amazingly simple method of “link-and-chop” to form new carbon-carbon double bonds and create molecules which would be very difficult to synthesize by conventional methods that involve a large number of synthetic steps requiring a variety of chemicals and reagents, energy and other resources. This saves many steps in synthesis, saves resources and obviously reduces the harmful impact on the ecosystem.

Two examples are given below