Ionic Liquids Completely UnCOILed

Critical overviews from the front line of ionic liquids research Ionic Liquids Completely UnCOILed: Critical Expert Overviews concludes the discussion of new processes and developments in ionic liquid technology introduced in the previously published volumes, Ionic Liquids UnCOILed and Ionic Liquids Further UnCOILed. The goal of this volume is to provide expert overviews that range from applied to theoretical, synthetic to structural, and analytical to toxicological. The value of book lies in the authors’ expertise, and their willingness to share it with the reader. Written by an international group of chemists, the book presents eleven overviews of specific areas of ionic liquid chemistry including: What is an Ionic Liquid? Molecular modelling Crystallography Chemical engineering of ionic liquid processes Toxicology and Biodegradation Organic reaction mechanisms Edited by Professor Ken Seddon and Dr Natalia Plechkova, world leaders in the field of ionic liquids, this book is a must read for R&D chemists, educators, and students, and for commercial developers of environmentally sustainable processes. It offers insight and appreciation for the direction in which the field is going, while also highlighting the best published works available, making it equally valuable to new and experienced chemists alike.

Contents of “Ionic Liquids UnCOILed” vii Contents of “Ionic Liquids Further UnCOILed” ix COIL Conferences xi Preface xiii Acknowledgements xv Contributors xvii Abbreviations xix 1 What Is an Ionic Liquid? 1 Andrew P. Abbott, Karl Ryder, Peter Licence, and Alasdair W. Taylor 2 N MR Studies of Ionic Liquids 13 Paul M. Bayley, Jan Novak, and Maria Forsyth 3 ‘Unusual Anions’ as Ionic Liquid Constituents 39 Philipp Eiden and Ingo Krossing 4 Investigating the Structure of Ionic Liquids and Ionic Liquid: Molecular Solute Interactions 55 Christopher Hardacre, Claire Mullan, and Tristan G. A. Youngs 5 Molecular Modelling of Ionic Liquids 83 José N. Canongia Lopes, Margarida Costa Gomes, and Agilío A. H. Pádua 6 Chemical Engineering of Ionic Liquid Processes 107 Carolin Meyer, Sebastian Werner, Marco Haumann, and Peter Wasserscheid 7 Vibrational Spectroscopy of Ionic Liquid Surfaces 145 Chariz Peñalber-Johnstone and Steven Baldelli 8 Raman Spectroscopy and the Heterogeneous Liquid Structure in Ionic Liquids 165 Satyen Saha, Takashi Hiroi, Koichi Iwata, and Hiro‐O Hamaguchi 9 (Eco)Toxicology and Biodegradation of Ionic Liquids 189 Stefan Stolte, Marianne Matzke, and Jürgen Arning 10 Ionic Liquids and Organic Reaction Mechanisms 209 Tom Welton 11 Crystallography of Ionic Liquids 231 Neil Winterton Index 535