Chemistry in the 21st century. A central science
or a "back office" technical activity?*
Mary L. Good
College of Information Science and Systems
Engineering, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 2801 South University
Avenue, Little Rock, AR 72204-1099, USA
Abstract: The science of chemistry underlies
all of our work in the environmental area and in the new technologies
exemplified by materials science and molecular physics. For these
areas to progress, chemistry must continue to be a creative and innovative
source of new ideas rather than just a handmaiden for currently identified
problems in these closely allied areas of study.
*Lecture presented at the IUPAC CHEMRAWN
XIV Conference on Green Chemistry:Toward Environmentally Benign Processes
and Products, Boulder,Colorado, USA, 9-13 June 2001. Other presentations
are published in this issue, pp.1229 –1330.
