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Green Chemistry

By Dr. Jyothi P R   |   Mar Athanasius College, Kothamangalam
Learners enrolled: 71
This course provides a comprehensive overview of the fundamental principles, techniques and applications of Green Chemistry, empowering students with the knowledge and skills to address environmental challenges through the adoption of sustainable chemical practices.

The structural frame work of the course will benefit to other fields. After completing the course, the learner is expected to Identify and evaluate environmentally benign alternatives to traditional chemical processes and products. Also, he is expected to Promote eco-friendly innovations and contribute to the advancement of sustainable technologies in research or industry.
Summary
Course Status : Upcoming
Course Type : Elective
Language for course content : Malayalam
Duration : 12 weeks
Category :
  • Chemistry
Credit Points : 4
Level : Undergraduate
Start Date : 05 Jan 2026
End Date : 10 Apr 2026
Exam Date :
Translation Languages : Malayalam
NCrF Level   : 5.5

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Course layout

Week 1
Day 1 : Module 1- Introduction to Green Chemistry
Day 2 : Module 2 - History of Green Chemistry
Day 3 : Module 3 - Importance and Need of Green Chemistry 
Day 4 : Assignments

Week 2
Day 1 : Module 4 - Goals of Green Chemistry, Twelve Principles of Green Chemistry.
Day 2 : Module 5 - Green Chemistry Principles from 1-4
Day 3 : Module 6 - Green Chemistry Principles from 5-8
Day 4 : Assignments

Week 3
Day 1 : Module 7 - Green Chemistry Principles from 8-12
Day 2 : Module 8 - Detailed explanation of each principle with examples
Day 3 : Module 9 - Detailed explanation of each principle with examples
Day 4 : Assignments

Week  4 
Day 1 : Module 10 - Renewable feedstocks
Day 2 : Module 11 - Biodiesel and Bioethanol
Day 3 : Module 12 - Polymers from renewable resources
Day 4 : Assignments

Week 5
Day 1 : Module 13 - Green synthesis using Dimethyl carbonate
Day 2 : Module 14 - Green oxidants -Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2)
Day 3 : Module 15 - Green oxidants – Oxygen (O2)
Day 4 : Assignments

Week 6
Day 1 : Module 16 - Photochemical synthesis of vitamin D
Day 2 : Module 17 - Advantages of photochemical synthesis compared to conventional synthesis
Day 3 : Module 18 - Ionic liquid - Definition and design
Day 4 : Assignments

Week 7
Day 1 : Module 19 - Use of ethyl ammonium nitrate, Ethyl-3-methylimidazolium (EMIM) Chloride
Day 2 : Module 20 - Use of EMIM dicyanamide
Day 3 : Module 21 - Green synthesis using water as solvent
Day 4 : Assignments

Week8
Day 1 : Module 22 - Green synthesis using supercritical carbon dioxide as solvents
Day 2 : Module 23 - Solid state synthesis
Day 3 : Module 24 - Comparison of green solvents and conventional organic solvents
Day 4 : Assignments

Week 9
Day 1 : Module 25 - Green catalysis
Day 2 : Module 26 - Biocatalysis
Day 3 : Module 27 - Photocatalysis
Day 4 : Assignments

Week 10
Day 1 : Module 28 - Mechanism of Microwave-assisted reaction
Day 2 : Module 29 - Microwave-assisted solvent-free synthesis of copper phthalocyanine
Day 3 : Module 30 - Microwave-assisted reactions in water -Hofmann Elimination
Day 4 : Assignments

Week 11
Day 1 : Module 31 - Microwave-assisted reactions in water-methyl benzoate to benzoic acid
Day 2 : Module 32 - Microwave-assisted reactions in water- Decarboxylation reaction
Day 3 : Module 33 - Green synthesis of Ibuprofen
Day 4 : Assignments

Week 12
Day 1 : Module 34 - Mechanism of Ultrasound-assisted reactions
Day 2 : Module 35 - Sonochemical Simmons-Smith Reaction
Day 3 : Module 36 - Comparison of green and conventional methods for oxidation of toluene to benzoic acid by microwave-assisted method
Day 4 : Assignments

Week 13
Day 1 : Module 37 - Green industrial processes
Day 2 : Module 38 - Click Chemistry
Day 3 : Module 39 - Waste management, Renewable energy
Day 4 : Module 40 - Limitations of Green Chemistry
Day 5 : Assignments

Books and references

    1. A Greener Footprint for Industry (Vienna, United Nations Industrial Development Organization, 2009). Available from www.unep.or.jp/ietc/spc/news-nov09/UNIDO_GreenIndustryConceptEbook.pdf
    2. A Textbook of Green Chemistry by Sankar Prasad Dey & Nayim Sepay Published by: TECHNO WORLD
    3. Ahluwalia, V.K. & Kidwai, M. 2004. New trends in Green Chemistry: Microwave-Induced Green Synthesis. Anamaya Publishers, New Delhi. 263 pp. 
    4. Anastas PT, Beach ES. Kundu Soumen, Tools for Green Chemistry, 2017, 10. Wiley.
    5. Anastas, P. T., Warner, J. C. Green Chemistry: Theory and Practice; Oxford University Press; New York, 1998.
    6. Biofuel Technology Handbook. Dominik Rutz & Rainer Janssen 2008. WIP Renewable Energies Sylvensteinstr. 2 81369 München Germany. 2nd Version, January 2008.
    7. Desai KR. Green Chemistry- Microwave Synthesis; Himalayan Publishing House, 2005. 
    8. DeSimone, J. M., "Practical Approaches to Green Chemistry", Science, 275 (5305), 1997, 1729-1730.
    9. Green Chemistry and Catalysis. I. Arends, R. Sheldon, U. Hanefeld Copyright © 2007 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim ISBN: 978-3-527-30715-9
    10. Handbook of Metathesis, 2nd ed., ed. by R. H. Grubbs, A. G. Wenzel, D. J. O'Leary, E. Khosravi, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2015.
    11. Hein CD, Liu XM, Wang D. Click chemistry, a powerful tool for pharmaceutical sciences. Pharm Res. 2008 Oct;25(10):2216-30. 
    12. Huisman, G. W., & Sheldon, R. A. (Eds.). (2018). Biocatalysis for Green Chemistry and Chemical Process Development. Wiley.
    13. Institute of Medicine (US) Committee to Review Dietary Reference Intakes for Vitamin D and Calcium; Ross AC, Taylor CL, Yaktine AL, et al., editors. Dietary Reference Intakes for Calcium and Vitamin D. Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 2011. 
    14. Kadam, S. S., & Bhangale, C. J. (2024). A Review on Challenges and Impact of Green Chemistry on Environment. Journal of Pharmaceutical Research International, 36(7), 39–50.
    15. Katre, S. D. (2024). Microwaves in Organic Synthetic Chemistry- A Greener Approach to Environmental Protection: An Overview. Asian Journal of Green Chemistry, 8(1), 68-80. 
    16. KR Desai. Green Chemistry Microwave Synthesis, First Edition, Himalaya Publication House, India, 2005.1.
    17. Kurul, F., Doruk, B. & Topkaya, S.N. Principles of green chemistry: building a sustainable future. Discov. Chem. 2, 68 (2025). 
    18. Lancaster M, Green Chemistry: An Introductory Text, RSC, London, 2002
    19. Lee-Hyung Kim and Marla C. Maniquiz-Redillas, Chapter 5 Green industry concept and practices. © IWA Publishing 2018. Wealth Creation without Pollution: Designing for Industry, Ecobusiness Parks and Industrial Estates Brian D’Arcy, Lee-Hyung Kim, Marla Maniquiz-Redillas 
    20. Madan, V. K. (2018). Supercritical Carbon Dioxide as Greener Solvent of 21st Century. Asian Journal of Chemistry, 30(4). 
    21. Meereboer, K.W., Misra, M., Mohanty, A. K. 2020 Review of recent advances in the biodegradability of polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) bioplastics and their composites. Green Chem 22(17):5519–5558. 
    22. Moses, John & Moorhouse, Adam. (2007). The Growing Applications of Click Chemistry. Chemical Society reviews. 36. 1249-62. 10.1039/b613014n. 
    23. Murphy, M.A. Early Industrial Roots of Green Chemistry and the history of the BHC Ibuprofen process invention and its Quality connection. Found Chem 20, 121–165 (2018). 
    24. Olefin Metathesis: Theory and Practice, ed. by K. Grela, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2014.
    25. Oriental Journal of Chemistry. (2025, March 24). Green Analytical Approaches and Eco-Friendly Solvents: Advancing Industrial Applications and Environmental Sustainability—A Comprehensive Review. 
    26. Ozturk, Turan & Amna Hussain, Bibi. (2021). Click chemistry: a fascinating method of connecting organic groups. Organic Communications. 97-120. 10.25135/acg.oc.100.21.03.2006. 
    27. Poliakoff, M., Licence, P.: Sustainable technology: Green Chemistry. Nature 450(6), 810–812 (2007)
    28. Promila, Sushila Singh and Parvesh Devi. Ionic liquids: Green solvents of sustainable chemistry. International Journal of Chemical Studies 2017; 5(6): 1497-1503. 
    29. Sajal, Najmul Hassan, Supercritical co₂ as a green solvent: a comprehensive review of its applications in industrial processes (2025). 
    30. Sandip K. Singh, Anthony W. Savoy, Ionic liquids synthesis and applications: An overview, Journal of Molecular Liquids, Volume 297, 2020, 112038, ISSN 0167-7322.
    31. Subramaniam, B., & G. P. M., "Supercritical CO₂ as a Green Solvent: A Comprehensive Review of Its Applications in Green Manufacturing and Circular Economy Practices," SSRN Electronic Journal, 2025.
    32. Surati, M.A., Jauhari, S. & Desai, K.R. 2012, 'A brief review: Microwave-assisted organic reaction', Scholars Research Library, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 645-661. 
    33. Tiago GAO, Matias IAS, Ribeiro APC, Martins LMDRS. Application of Ionic Liquids in Electrochemistry—Recent Advances. Molecules. 2020; 25(24):5812. 
    34. Trost, B. “The Atom Economy - A Search for Synthetic Efficiency” Science 1991, (254), pp. 1471-1477.
    35. Wang D, Shi F, Wang L. A Review of Catalysts for Synthesis of Dimethyl Carbonate. Catalysts. 2024; 14(4):259. 
    36. Warner, John & Cannon, Amy & Dye, Kevin. (2004). Green Chemistry. Environmental Impact Assessment Review. 24. 775-799. 
    37. Welton T. Ionic liquids: a brief history. Biophys Rev. 2018 Jun;10(3):691-706. 
    38. Welton, T. (1999). Room-temperature ionic liquids: Solvents for synthesis and catalysis. Chemical Reviews, 99(8), 2071–2084. 
    39. Winterton, N. Green chemistry: deliverance or distraction? Clean Techn Environ Policy 18, 991–1001 (2016). 
    40. Y. Gür, L. K. E. A. Abdelmohsen, and J. C. M. van Hest, in Click Chemistry in Polymer Science Designs to Applications, ed. N. K. Singha, P. Mondal, and R. Hoogenboom, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2024, vol. 39, ch. 1, pp. 1-23.
    41. Zhou, Z., et al. (2019). Water—The greenest solvent overall. Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry, 19, 26–32.

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Instructor bio

Dr. Jyothi P R

Mar Athanasius College, Kothamangalam
Dr. Jyothi P R is working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry, Mar Athanasius College Kothamangalam. She holds her PhD from Calicut University under the guidance of Dr. P Raveendran in Green Chemistry. During her research, Dr Jyothi P R could publish her works in well reputed journals with high impact factor.

Dr Jyothi has five years of teaching experience and has guided many PG and UG research projects. Some of these works are communicated to journals and a few of them are published as book chapters.

She has also developed 13 modules in the SWAYAM platform on the topic ‘Coordination chemistry’ Dr. Jyothi P R. has served as a resource person in various national seminars on different topics.

Course certificate

Course Certificate Criteria

1.       End-Term Examination:

o    Weightage: 70% of the final result

o    Minimum Passing Criteria: 40%

2.       Internal Assessment:

o    Weightage: 30% of the final result

o    Minimum Passing Criteria: 40%

Calculation of IA Marks:

o    Out of all graded weekly assessments/assignments, the top 50% of assignments shall be considered for the calculation of the final Internal Assessment marks.

All students who obtain 40% marks in the internal assessment and 40% marks in the end-term proctored exam separately will be eligible for the SWAYAM Credit Certificate.

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