Role of Catalysis in Sustainable Chemistry and Conservation of Environment

Sustainable chemistry is concerned with the development of goods that reduce the usage and generation of toxic compounds that harm the environment. Sustainable Chemistry is based on Paul Anastas and John Werner's 12 Principles of Green Chemistry, which laid out a blueprint for long-term development in the 1990s. The employment of catalysts to increase atom economy and reaction yield is the most important of them. Catalysts are the foundations of Green Chemistry, and there is an ongoing quest for new catalysts all over the world. The atom economy of a chemical reaction is a theoretical measure of the quantity of starting material converted into the desired product and is a reliable indicator of a reaction's greenness. Thus, 100% atom economy means 0% waste.