Adelina Voutchkova
Adelina Voutchkova
Center for Green Chemistry & Engineering
Yale University
New Haven
CT
06511
203-752-7662
adelina.voutchkova@yale.edu
Latest content created by this user
| Blog Entry | |
|---|---|
| Stick to facts about glue toxicity. | Jun 18, 2010 |
| New energy source discovered? | Mar 16, 2010 |
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| New membrane makes fresh water from sea and sewage feasible. | Jul 20, 2010 |
| Dream of plastics from carbon dioxide is a reality. | Jun 01, 2010 |
| Removing stubborn fluorines detoxifies CFCs. | Jun 17, 2010 |
| Toxicity test shows traffic dust is most toxic. | Jun 08, 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.
