Adelina Voutchkova
Adelina Voutchkova
Postdoctoral Fellow
Yale University, Center for Green Chemistry & Engineering
Green chemistry; Safer commercial chemicals; Catalysis; Chemical manufacturing; Materials; Waste materials
adelina.voutchkova@yale.edu / 203-752-7662
adelina.voutchkova@yale.edu
Latest content created by this user
| Blog Entry | |
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| Stick to facts about glue toxicity. | Jun 18, 2010 |
| New energy source discovered? | Mar 16, 2010 |
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| Chemists propose to design safer chemicals - right from the start. | Nov 22, 2010 |
| Something's in the air: BPA found around the world. | Sep 30, 2010 |
| Could estimating environmental risk soon be a click away? | Sep 16, 2010 |
| Getting the sulfur out: Method is kind to environment and wallet. | Aug 13, 2010 |
| New membrane makes fresh water from sea and sewage feasible. | Jul 20, 2010 |
My Ph.D. background is in novel transformations in organometallic homogeneous/heterogeneous catalysis. My current work focuses on understanding how to design chemicals so that they have minimal toxicological and environmental hazards. We do this through computationally predicting physiochemical properties and comparing chemicals that are relatively safe to those that are highly toxic. Ultimately we aim to inform chemists with a set of design rules they can follow to avoid synthesizing highly dangerous chemicals and avoid/minimize in-vivo toxicity testing.
