Targeted at advanced undergraduate students and first-year graduate students with a background in General and Organic Chemistry this textbook illustrates the Principles of Green Chemistry with real-world Case studies.
Etzkorn regularly participates in the annual ACS Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference..
At Virginia Tech, she created one of the earliest courses in Green Chemistry, taught every spring since 2006, and she has been teaching the course to ever more enthusiastic students.
Her research is on the effects of cis-trans proline isomerization on the mechanisms of cell cycle regulation, transcription, and collagen triple-helix folding.
She has been a Professor of Chemistry at Virginia Tech since 2000.
Walsh.
She was an NIH Post-doctoral Associate at Harvard Medical School, where she performed research on Immunosuppression with the Cyclosporin-Human Cyclophilin A Complex with Christopher T.
Bartlett on the Design, Synthesis and Evaluation of Tendamistat Mimics: Inhibitors of -Amylase. in Organic Chemistry at the University of California at Berkeley with Paul A.
She was an Associate Radiochemist at Midwest Research Institute for four years, synthesizing 3 H and 14 C-labeled compounds for cancer and toxicology research, before earning her Ph.
D. in Chemistry at Missouri State University.
She earned her B.
S.
Grote, stimulated her interest in cleaning up the environment and guided her towards a career in chemistry.
Her high school biology teacher, Mrs.
She has been interested in the environment since 6th grade when Frances Scheidegger started a recycling center in her home town.
Louis, MO.
About the Author Felicia Etzkorn was born in St.
Targeted at advanced undergraduate students and first-year graduate students with a background in General and Organic Chemistry this textbook illustrates the Principles of Green Chemistry with real-world Case studies
