Center For Green Chemistry & Green Engineering At Yale

Anastas to Return to Yale

Paul Anastas announces plan to return to Yale University in the spring after leave as top scientist at the US EPA

Image by Eric Vance

In The Community

Leanne Pasquini visits Greenwich Academy science classes to introduce the engineering design process and kick-off their Invention Convention

Photos by Wayne K. Lin, Greenwich Academy

Chemical Society Reviews

Derivation and synthesis of renewable surfactants

This critical review focuses on the origins and preparation of bio-based surfactants, defined here as non-soap, amphiphilic molecules in which the carbon atoms are derived from annually renewable feedstocks.

New Publication!

In Green Chemistry,

Towards rational molecular design: derivation of property guidelines for reduced acute aquatic toxicity

by Voutchkova, Kostal, Steinfeld, Emerson, Brooks, Anastas and Zimmerman

Nature News

Nature News article

How to design a safer chemical

features the research of Center for Green Chemistry members