Cover Feature: Pharmaceutical Applications of Ionic Liquids: A Personal Account (Chem. Rec. 8/2023)

Ionic liquids: Pharmaceutical and Biotechnological Applications

Ionic liquids (ILs) are largely made of ions and short-lived ion pairs. These often possess a unique combination of physical and chemical properties which are not available with molecular solvents. ILs are dynamic, attractive and rich research area and are gaining considerable attention as promising molten materials for a variety of applications in pharmaceutical and biotechnology fields. Ionic...

Energy applications of ionic liquids

Protic pharmaceutical ionic liquids and solids: aspects of protonics.

A series of new protic compounds based on active pharmaceutical ingredients have been synthesised and characterised. Some of the salts synthesised produced ionic liquids, while others that were associated with rigid molecular structures tended to produce high melting points. The "protonic" behaviour of these compounds was found to be a major determinant of their properties. Indicator studies, F...

Electrochemical Applications of Room - Temperature Ionic Liquids

R3 R2 There is good evidence that the first room-temperature ionic liquid or RTIL was identified and characterized by Walden in 1914, who examined the electrical conductivity of ethylammonium nitrate.1 Thus, it would not be an exaggeration to say that the very beginnings of electrochemistry involved room-temperature ionic liquids! Although once considered to be a curious subset of the general c...

Applications of Ionic Liquids in Lignin Chemistry