Includes index.

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Part I : General topics in green chemistry -- Green chemistry metrics -- Green solvents -- Green analytical chemistry -- Green engineering -- Greening of consumer cleaning products -- Innovation with non-covalent derivatization -- Part II : Green catalysts -- Catalytic C-H bond cleavage for heterocyclic compounds -- Biocatalysis -- Practical asymmetric organocatalysis -- Florous catalysis -- Solid-supported catalysis -- Asymmetric organocatalysis in aqueous media -- Part III : Green synthetic techniques -- Solvent-free synthesis -- Ultrasonic reactions -- Photochemical synthesis -- Pot economy synthesis -- Microwave-assisted organic synthesis - overview of recent applications -- Solid-supported synthesis -- Light fluorous synthesis -- Part IV: Green techniques and strategies in the pharmaceutical industry -- Ionic liquids in pharmaceutical industry -- Green technologies and approaches in the manufacture of biologics -- Benchmarking green chmistry adoption by "big pharma" and generics manufacturers -- Green process chemistry in the pharmaceutical industry : case studies update (2012-2016) -- Greener pharmaceutical science through collaboration : the ACS GCI pharmaceutical roundtable.