Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice. CONTENIDO:Introduction to Green Pharmaceutical Science: Fact, Fiction, and Future, Julie B. Manley -- Green Chemistry in Drug Development, Apurba Bhattacharya, Siddhartha Akasapu, and Rakeshwar Bandichhor -- Development of Green-by-Design, Practical Biocatalytic Processes, Gjalt W. Huisman and Steven J. Collier -- Application of Green Metrics to Scalable Industrial Synthesis Plans: Approaches to Oseltamivir Phosphate (Tamiflu R), John Andraos -- The Road to Becoming Green: Process Development of AR-A2, an Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient with Antidepressant Activity, Hans-Jürgen Federsel, Martin Hedberg, Fredrik R. Qvarnström, and Wei Tian -- Improved and Greener Process for Pioglitazone and Its Pharmaceutically Acceptable Salts, Apurba Bhattacharya, Rakeshwar Bandichhor, and Lokeswara Rao Madivada -- The Development of a Convergent Green Synthesis of Linezolid, an Oxazolidinone Antibacterial Agent, William R. Perrault, James B. Keeler, William C. Snyder, Christian L. Clark, Michael R. Reeder, Richard J. Imbordino, Rebecca M. Anderson, Nabil Ghazal, Stephen L. Secreast, and Bruce A. Pearlman -- Development of a Nonaqueous Process for the Synthesis of 3-Amino-pentan-1,5-diol, Thimma Rawalpally and Thomas Cleary -- Development of a Robust, Environmentally Responsible Process for the Manufacture of Tofacitinib Citrate, Rajappa Vaidyanathan -- Selective Nitration under cGMP Conditions, Peter Poechlauer, Sascha Braune, and Roland Obermüller -- Going Green Using Combined Real-Time Analytics and Process Automation, Dominique Hebrault and Terry Redman -- Approaches to the Scale-Up of Organic Chemistry Using Microwave Heating, Nicholas E. Leadbeater -- Challenges Faced and Future Directions, Stefan G. Koenig.