List of TablesList of FiguresList of AbbreviationsTable of ContentsFunding AcknowledgementsIntroductionA few words on methodologyThe input of the humanities and social sciencesChapter 1: Standard narrative on the history of green chemistry1. Green chemistry: the story so far2. What does the standard narrative really tell us about green chemistry?2.1. Brown vs Green Chemistry2.2. Green chemistry versus ‘command and control’ approachConclusionsChapter 2: The formative 1990s1. Green chemistry outside the Anglosphere in the late 1980s and early 1990s2. Anastas’s green chemistry in the US before 19982.1. Preliminary remarks2.2. Benign by Design (1994 book)2.3. Green Chemistry. Designing Chemistry for the Environment (1996 book)2.4. Laying down the foundations of green chemistry3. Non-Anastas American green chemistries3.1. Hancock’s environmental green chemistry3.2. Garrett’s toxicological green chemistry3.3. Concluding remarks4. Sheldon’s and Trost’s green chemistry metrics5. Clark’s Green Chemistry6. But what was practised as green chemistry in the 1990s?6.1. Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award6.2. First university courses in green chemistry6.3. Canonical green chemistry symposia (1994, 1996)6.4. Note on the American Chemical Society Symposia SeriesConclusionsChapter 3: 12 principles of green chemistry and their proliferation1. A short epistemological introduction2. Completing and reformulating the 12 principles of green chemistry3. Enthronement of green chemistry principles3.1. Creating the legend3.2. 12 principles in green chemistry education3.3. Green chemistry’s self-representationConclusionsChapter 4: What is green chemistry? (normative approach)1. Major controversies: chlorine sunset and fracking2. Core problem: ionic liquids3. Green chemistry metricsConclusions: Redrawing the boundariesChapter 5: What is green chemistry? (descriptive approach)1. Methodology2. Birth of the discipline (1996–2000)3. Explosion of interest (2001–2005)4. New publication venues (2006–2010)5. Rise of Asia (2011–2015)6. Solidifying change (2015–2020)7. Concluding remarks8. Side note on patents.Chapter 6: Biomass and doubly green chemistry1. Prehistory of principle 712. The French connection3. Biomass and renewability in the foundational texts of green chemistry (late 1990s–early 2000s4. The growth of the place of biomass and renewability in the literature on green chemistryChapter 7: Not only green: sustainable chemistry and past environmentally-friendly chemistries1. Forgotten alternatives1.1. Solid state-chemistry with green ambitions: French chimie douce1.2. Politically incorrect green chemistry: German sanfte Chemie1.3. Alternative pollution prevention frameworks in Europe2. Escaping the green: sustainable chemistry2.1. Industrial ecology (and the life-cycle assessment)2.2. 1998 OECD Sustainable Chemistry workshop2.3. German connection2.4. American trajectory: sustainable chemistry is green chemistry2.5. Going beyond green: early years of sustainable chemistry (1998–2011)2.6. Defining sustainable chemistry (2011–2017)2.7. Formalising sustainable chemistry as a discipline on its own (2015–2021)ConclusionsChapter 8: New conceptual frontiers for chemistry and environment1. New contenders to overthrow green chemistry1.1. Conservative evolution and the risk of politicization of green chemistry debates1.2. One-world chemistry1.3. Circular chemistry1.4. Concluding remarks on new alternative frameworks2. New ideas for green chemistry2.1. Systems thinking and green and sustainable chemistry2.2. Green chemistry and social justiceConclusionsGeneral conclusions: green chemistry as history of scientific ideasBibliography