Description:Content: Benign by design chemistry / Paul T. Anastas -- Environmentally benign chemical synthesis and processing for the economy and the environment / Kenneth G. Hancock and Margaret A. Cavanaugh -- Microbial biocatalysis : synthesis of adipic acid from D-glucose / Karen M. Draths and John W. Frost -- Mechanistic study of a catalytic process for carbonylation of nitroaromatic compounds : developing alternatives for use of phosgene / Wayne L. Gladfelter and Jerry D. Gargulak -- Preparative reactions using visible light : high yields from pseudoelectrochemical transformation / Gary A. Epling and Qingxi Wang -- A photochemical alternative to the Friedel-Crafts reaction / George A. Kraus, Masayuki Kirihara, and Yusheng Wu -- Mn(III)-mediated electrochemical oxidative free-radical cyclizations / Barry B. Snider and Bridget A. McCarthy -- Supercritical carbon dioxide as a medium for conducting free-radical reactions / James M. Tanko, Joseph F. Blackert, and Mitra Sadeghipour -- The University of California-Los Angeles styrene process / Orville L. Chapman -- Generation of urethanes and isocyanates from amines and carbon dioxide / Dennis Riley, William D. McGhee, and Thomas Waldman -- Nucleophilic aromatic substitution for hydrogen : new halide-free routes for production of aromatic amines / Michael K. Stern -- Chemistry and catalysis : keys to environmentally safer processes / Leo E. Manzer -- Alternative syntheses and other source reduction opportunities for premanufacture notification substances at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency / Carol A. Farris, Harold E. Podall, and Paul T. Anastas -- Computer-assisted alternative synthetic design for pollution prevention at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency / Paul T. Anastas, J. Dirk Nies, and Stephen C. DeVito.