QUÍMICA VERDE E A TABELA PERIÓDICA DE ANASTAS E ZIMMERMAN: TRADUÇÃO E ALINHAMENTOS COM O DESENVOLVIMENTO SUSTENTÁVEL

Abstract

GREEN CHEMISTRY AND THE PERIODIC TABLE BY ANASTAS AND ZIMMERMAN: TRANSLATION AND ALIGNMENT WITH A SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT. Green and Sustainable Chemistry (GSC) provides scientific and ethical innovations to achieve a sustainable future. In this context, international efforts and strategies have been made to incorporate this green philosophy into education. Brazil has immense potential to lead in this scenario, providing new approaches to introduce GSC into secondary education, especially with 2022 being the International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development. However, most published works on GSC are in English, which can be a language barrier for implementing GSC into Portuguese-speaking communities, such as Brazil. From this perspective, this paper aims to present a translation of the “Periodic Table of the Elements of Green and Sustainable Chemistry” by Paul T. Anastas and Julie B. Zimmerman into the Portuguese language. Our systematic translation of the names of the elements into Portuguese followed rigorous semantic and contextual details required for this process. We also identified and recommended some teaching opportunities of this interdisciplinary encyclopedia in alignment with a sustainable future. This green periodic table is a multidisciplinary tool that provides directions for “Systems Thinking in Chemistry Education”. Therefore, we contributed to the standardization and greater discussion of this alternative periodic table for future Portuguese-language publications.