Paradigms in Green Chemistry and Technology

History and Key Concepts.- Key Strategies: what is green and how to measure how green it is (green metrics).- A green start (green sources of raw materials).- Choosing the green reaction (rethinking the approach, multicomponent reactions).- Choice of green conditions (catalysis, non-thermal activation, biphasic...).- Industrial applications (flow chemistry, large scale, safety, monitoring, case histories).

Angelo Albini is currently Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Pavia, Italy. A native of Milan, he completed his studies in Chemistry at Pavia in 1972. After postdoctoral work at the Max-Plank Institute for Radiation Chemistry in Muelheim, Germany (1973-74), he joined the Faculty at Pavia in 1975 as an assistant and then associate (since 1981) professor. He accepted a Chair of Organic Chemistry at the University of Torino in 1990 and then moved again to Pavia in 1993. He has been Visiting Professor at the Universities of Western Ontario (Canada, 1977-78) and Odense (Denmark, 1983).

He is active in the field of organic photochemistry, organic synthesis via radicals and ions, photoinitiated reactions, mild synthetic procedures in the frame of the increasing interest for sustainable/green chemistry, and applied photochemistry (photostability of dyes, drugs, photoinduced degradation of pollutants. He has been responsible of several research projects sponsored by national and international institutions devoted to the above topics and coordinates the "Green Chemistry" group of the Italian Chemical Society. He is coauthor/editor of three books (Heterocyclic N-Oxides, CRC, Orlando, 1990; Drugs: Photochemistry and Photostability, RSC, Cambridge, 1998; Handbook of Preparative Photochemistry, Wiley-VCH, 2009), the senior reporter of the Specialist Periodic Reports on Photochemistry (RSC) since 2008, as well as coauthor of ca. 300 research articles. He has been the recipient of the Federchimica Prize for creativity in chemistry in 1990.

Stefano Protti is currently a fixed term Researcher at the University of Pavia, Italy. He obtained a Masters degree in 2003 (110/110 cum laude). In 2007 he completed his PhD in Pavia (Supervisor:Professor Maurizio Fagnoni) focused on photochemical arylations via phenyl cations. Later he moved to LASIR Laboratory (Lille, France), where he investigated the photoreactivity and the photophysics of flavonoid, under the