Recent green chemistry development in Canada

Abstract

High-profile green chemistry researchers from Canada, the US, and Europe met in Montreal in May for two conferences, both designed to raise the profile of green chemistry in the Canadian research community. The first of the two conferences, the 18^th Canadian Symposium on Catalysis, had three half-day sessions dedicated to catalytic aspects of green chemistry, while the second, the Canada–US Joint Workshop on Innovative Chemistry in Clean Media, focused on the properties and uses of green solvents in chemical synthesis. Only a week later, the national meeting of the Canadian Chemical Society, held in London, Ontario, included green chemistry events.