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CHEM 326

Environmental and Green Chemistry

3.00 units · Undergraduate

Winter 2026 · ENCH 326

Topics

  • Environmental chemicals and toxicity
  • ozone depletion and greenhouse effects
  • contaminant fate and partitioning
  • fugacity models
  • green chemistry
  • life-cycle analysis.

Readings

  • Course text: Baird and Cann, Environmental Chemistry, 5th edition, Freeman & Company (4th accepted; solutions manual optional). Other literature: Baird and Cann, Environmental Chemistry, 4th edition; Stanley Manahan, Environmental Chemistry, 8th edition; R. A. Sheldon et al., Green Chemistry and Catalysis; M. Lancaster, Green Chemistry: An Introductory Text. Further references provided during the course.
Winter 2022 · ENCH 326

Topics

  • Overview: define Environmental Chemistry and Green Chemistry
  • context within
  • thermodynamics
  • chlorine radicals and the ozone ‘layer’, CFCs and other ozone-depleting
  • contaminants, catalysis on condensed phases
  • hydroxyl radical, ozone production, proton
  • Chemical contaminants: PCBs, PBDEs and others
  • PAHs
  • estrogenic contaminants
  • Water: natural waters - oxygen and redox chemistry, acid/base chemistry and carbonate
  • Soil and sediments: major contaminants - behaviour, fate and transport
  • chemical and
  • biological remediation methods
  • heavy metals, lead, arsenic
  • Polymers

Readings

  • Listed material: Environmental Chemistry, 5th Edition, Baird and Cann, Freeman & Company. (Solutions manual is optional, 4th Edition is acceptable)
  • Listed material: Other Literature: (Check for availability through Stauffer Library Circulation Desk) Environmental Chemistry, 4th Ed., Baird and Cann Environmental Chemistry, 8th Ed., Stanley Manahan Green Chemistry and Catalysis, R. A. Sheldon et al. Green Chemistry: An Introductory Text, M. Lancaster Other references will be given throughout the course.
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