Atom economy
Economía atómica
- Date
- 1991 · confidence high
- Place
- Stanford, California, United States
- Credited to
- Barry Trost
- Field
- Matter & energy
What it is
Measure of a chemical process's efficiency based on the proportion of reactant mass that ends up in the desired product; introduced by Barry Trost as a central criterion of green chemistry.
What it led to
- Boost to the green chemistry movement
- Design of more efficient asymmetric catalysis
- Reduced waste in industrial synthesis
- Environmental evaluation criteria for chemical processes