Giving the “green” light: In a lecture held before the Société Française de Chimie in Paris in 1908, Giacomo Ciamician contrasted the harsh conditions of chemical synthesis in the laboratory with the mild syntheses carried out by green plants. Ciamician's research, with its focus on photochemical reactions, revealed already 100 years ago several of the tenets of contemporary sustainable/green chemistry.
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