Vegetable oils and fatty acid esters are suitable precursor molecules for the production of a variety of bio-based products and materials, such as paints and coatings, plastics, soaps, lubricants, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, printing inks, surfactants, and biofuels. Here, we report the possibility of using Lewis acidic ionic liquids (ILs) to obtain polyunsaturated ester dimerization-oligomeriza...

The origin of catalysis and selectivity induced by room temperature ionic liquids in several organic reactions has putatively been associated with the concept of cation effect (hydrogen bond donor ability of the ionic liquids) or anion effect (hydrogen bond accepting ability of the ionic liquids). We show that there may be cases where this a priori classification may not be correctly assigned. ...

A green method for the synthesis of high-performance diketopyrrolopyrrole pigments using diethyl succinate in the presence of mixture of ionic liquids is reported. Although, alkaline condition is needed in the succinate ester route for synthesis of the pigments, in the present study, the replacement possibility of conventional organic base by mixture of BMIMOH and BMIMBF4 ionic liquids was inve...

We have shown that the amyloid fibrilization of Aβ16-22 follows a reverse hofmeister trend in pILs. Fast fibrilization rates of seconds can be achieved.

New sulfonic acid functionalized ionic liquids (SAFILs) with bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide anions were synthesized. These ionic liquids are strong Brønsted acids and can solubilize metal oxides. Water-immiscible SAFILs were used as organic phases in solvent extraction studies.