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GREEN SOLVENTS: A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF SUSTAINABLE ALTERNATIVES

P. Aravanan, S. Jeevanandham, R. Gowrish*, G. K. Pramoth, U. Joel Francis, I. Mohammed Innamal Hasan and A. Mohammed Khaza Moideen

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In the long term usage chemical solvents, it can cause harm to the living organisms and micro organisms in the environment. For that purpose we can reduce the usage of solvents or replacing it with the less toxic ones are the two important role in green chemistry. The design of chemical products and processes that minimize or completely do away with the usage or production of dangerous materials is known as "green chemistry". Green chemistry covers all aspects of a chemical product's life cycle, including its creation, application, and final disposal. By lowering or completely eliminating the risks associated with chemical feedstock, reagents, solvents, and products, green chemistry minimizes pollution at its source. Green chemistry emphasizes designing novel routes to overcome health and environmental problems that can occur during the chemical reaction. It is a branch of chemistry that can deals with reduction of usage of toxic and harmful chemicals in the synthesis. Fundamentals of green chemistry is the uses of green solvents in chemical reactions. Green solvents are used in place of chemical solvents in the chemical reaction, which are in long term minimizing the environmental depletion. Water, supercritical fluids, ionic liquids, non toxic liquid polymers and their variety of combinations are the part of green solvents. In this review we can focus on green chemistry and green solvents.

Keywords: chemical solvents, green chemistry, green solvents, parts of green solvents.