Chemistry for Sustainable Development in Africa

Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 1994

The International Conference on Pure and Applied Chemistry (ICPAC 2010) was held from 26th to 30th July 2010 at La Plantation Resort and Spa, Balaclava, in Mauritius. The theme of the conference was "Chemistry for Sustainable Development". ICPAC 2010 was attended by about 160 participants coming from 30 countries. The conference featured 100 oral and 85 poster presentations. The participants of ICPAC 2010 were invited to submit full papers. The latter were subsequently peer reviewed and the selected papers are collected in this volume. This book of proceedings encloses 31 presentations covering wide ranging topics from organic chemistry to material science and nanotechnology, and from computational chemistry to agricultural chemistry. We would like to thank all those who submitted the full papers and the reviewers for their timely help in assessing these papers for publication. We would like to pay a special tribute to all the sponsors of ICPAC 2010. Chemistry is being increasingly recognised as a central discipline that encompasses several areas of medicine, agriculture, biology, environment, physics and material science. Therefore, as we celebrate the International Year of Chemistry (IYC 2011) and the 100th anniversary of the Noble prize awarded to Marie Curie, we hope that this collection of papers will serve as a useful reference set for researchers.

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Chemistry International -- Newsmagazine for IUPAC, 2005

2014

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2016

The continent of Africa is made up by many country borderlines, but as we know, borders are only lines on a map. Nature and the environment don’t recognize these borders, and therefore, issues of climate change, air pollution, water quality and diseases require collaborations among nations for their solutions. A new way of thinking, teaching and learning chemistry is also required. Chemistry will play a major role in solving the challenges that face our planet and the development of the continent of Africa. We must have chemists who will be able to solve these problems. In order to have these types of chemists, we must have, in the pipeline, students who will become the future chemists able to offer solutions to existing and new problems. This means developing a new curriculum and new methods of teaching chemistry so that chemistry can be accessible to all students in Africa. Sadly enough, many students shy away from chemistry. In order to attract students to chemistry, creative met...

2016

Natural products ‘historically’ and ‘today’ have vast importance. This article describes the course ‘Natural Product Chemistry’, a new course in the 2011/2012 academic year in the Faculty of Natural and Applied Sciences at St. John’s University of Tanzania. It reveals how the course has been applied to the African and Tanzanian context and expresses the importance of a ‘Natural Product Chemistry’ course within chemical education. This paper also serves as a resource to help other scientists develop a similar course within their context.

Handbook of Green Chemistry and Technology, 2002

مستقبل التربیة العربیة

Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy, 2020

In this essay some important forerunners of green chemistry will be discussed and compared with the present state. The relationship to ethics will be considered. Starting from the new movement of green chemistry by Anastas, some important highlights will be presented. The new activities of IUPAC and other institutions on the concepts of metrics for green syntheses will be discussed. The prime importance of the inclusion of developing African countries into the concepts will also be covered. Green chemistry philosophy has become part of sustainable chemistry which emphasizes the implementation of the concept of sustainability in the production and use of chemicals and chemical products for sustainable development and, some sustainable development concepts are included under the section on Africa.

The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use.