The term Green Chemistry emerged from the Pollution Prevention Act that was enacted in 11990 in the United States, and
prefers to the design of chemical products and processes that reduce or eliminate the use or generation of hazardous compounds
Although in early years Green Chemistry was mainly oriented
to the planning of organic synthesis, the application of Green
Chemistry concepts was gradually extended to other areas such as
analytical chemistry. In fact, with the purpose of generating environmentally friendly methods without affecting their accuracy,
sensitivity, and reproducibility, in the late 1990s the Green Analytical Chemistry (GAC) concept arose. In 1998, Anastas and Warner proposed the twelve principles of the Green Chemistry and, in 2001 Namieśnik selected those
having priority for the development of GAC methods . These principles include the reduction or elimination of the
use of organic solvents, the reduction of gaseous, liquid and solid
wastes,the disposal of to xicoreco-toxic reagents, andreduction in
power consumption. In 2013, Gałuszka et al. proposed twelve
principles as a guide for the development of new environmentally
friendly methods , and many researchers
began to offer novel strategies to implement these new concepts, including the idea that the simpler the analytical procedure, the greener . It is
important to point out that chemists have different tools to assess
the greenness of analytical procedures