This book focuses on exciting new developments in ionic liquids.

Contents

1. Overview
   1. Selection of Ionic Liquids for Green Chemical Applications

2. Ionic Liquids: Manufacture and Synthesis
   2. Ionic Liquids: Improved Syntheses and New Products
   3. Challenges to the Commercial Production of Ionic Liquids
   4. Industrial Preparation of the Phosphonium Ionic Liquids
   5. New Ionic Liquids Based on Alkylsulfate and Alkyl Oligoether Sulfate Anions: Synthesis and Applications
   6. Green Synthesis of Ionic Liquids for Green Chemistry
   7. Expeditious Synthesis of Ionic Liquids Using Ultrasound and Microwave Irradiation
   8. Unprecedented Synthesis of 1,3-dialkylimidazolium-2-carboxylate: Applications in the Synthesis of Halogen-Free Ionic Liquids and Reactivity as Carbon Dioxide Transfer Agent to Active C-H Bonds
   9. Commercially Available Salts as Building Blocks for New Ionic Liquids

3. Characterization and Engineering
   10. Phase Equilibria of Gases and Liquids with 1-n-butyl-3-Methylimidazolium Tetrafluroborate
   11. Heat Capacities of Ionic Liquids and Their Applications as Thermal Fluids
   12. Thermodynamic Properties of Liquid Mixtures Containing Ionic Liquids
   13. Liquid and Solid-State Structures of 1,3-Dimenthylimidazolium Salts
   14. Molecular Structure of Various Ionic Liquids from Gas Phase Ab Initio Calculations
   15. Transition Structure Models of Organic Reactions in Chloroaluminate Ionic Liquids: Cyclopentadiene and Methyl Acrylate Diels-Alder Reaction in Acidic and Basic Melts of 1-Ethyl-3-methylimidazolium Chloride with Aluminum(III) Chloride

4. Biotechnology in Ionic Liquids
   16. Biotransformations in Ionic Liquids: An Overview
   17. Enzymatic Condensation Reactions in Ionic Liquids
   18. Aspects of Chemical Recognition and Biosolvation within Room Temperature Ionic Liquids
   19. Ionic Liquids Create New Opportunities for Nonaqueous Biocatalysis with polar Substrates: Acylation of Glucose and Ascorbic Acid
   20. Enzymatic Catalysis in Ionic Liquids and Supercritical Carbon Dioxide
   21. Efficient Lipase-Catalyzed Enantioselective Acylation in an Ionic Liquid Solvent System

5. Non-Catalytic and Catalytic Chemistry
   22. Acids and Bases in Ionic Liquids
   23. Catalytic Olefin Epoxidation and Dihydroxylation with Hydrogen Peroxide in Common Ionic Liquids: Comparative Kinetics and Mechanistic Study
   24. Polarity Variation of Room Temperature Ionic Liquids and Its Influence on a Diels-Alder Reaction
   25. Polar, Non-Coordinating Ionic Liquids as Solvents for Coordination Polymerization of Olefins
   26. The Importance of Hydrogen Bonding to Catalysis in Ionic Liquids: Inhibition of Allylic Substitution and Isomerization by [bmim][BF4]
   27. Recent Developments in the Use of N -Heterocyclic Carbenes: Applications in Catalysis

6. Photochemistry
   28. An Overview of Photochemistry in Ionic Liquids
   29. Diffusion-Controlled Reactions in Room Temperature Ionic Liquids
   30. Amine Mediated Photoreduction of Aryl Ketones in N -Heterocyclic Ionic Liquids: Novel Solvent Effects Leading to Altered Product Distribution
   31. Radiation Chemistry of Ionic Liquids: Reactivity of Primary Species
   32. Pulse Radioanalysis Studies of Reaction Kinetics in Ionic Liquids
   33. Organic Electrochemistry in Ionic Liquids
   34. Solvent-Solute Interactions in Ionic Liquid Media: Electrochemical Studies of the Ferricenium-Ferrocene Couple
   35. Electrochemical Studies of Ambient Temperature Ionic Liquids Based on Choline Chloride
   36. Electrodeposition of Nanoscale Metals and Semiconductors from Ionic Liquids

7. Novel Applications
   37. Plasticizing Effects of Imidazolium Salts in PMMA: High-Temperature Stable Flexible Engineering Materials
   38. The Use of Ionic Liquids in Polymer Gel Electrolytes
   39. Electrochemistry: Ionic Liquid Electroprocessing of Reactive Metals
   40. Electrochemistry: Electrochemically Generated Superoxide Ion in Ionic Liquids: Applications to Green Chemistry
   41. Conventional Aspects of Unconventional Solvents: Room Temperature Ionic Liquids as Ion-Exchangers and Ionic Surfactants
   42. Extraction of Chlorophenols from Water Using Room Temperature Ionic Liquids

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