In this article a strategy is proposed for the design of low toxic, room temperature liquid low-melting mixtures (LMMs) which are entirely composed of natural materials. From literature it is well known that, in general, deep eutectic solvents based on choline chloride and dicarboxylic acids are LMMs, but not liquids at room temperature, with one exception: a 1 : 1 molar mixture of malonic acid...

Ionic liquids are novel solvents of interest as greener alternatives to conventional organic solvents aimed at facilitating sustainable chemistry. As a consequence of their unusual physical properties, reusability, and eco-friendly nature, ionic liquids have attracted the attention of organic chemists. Numerous reports have revealed that many catalysts and reagents were supported in the ionic l...

During past few years, ionic liquids have kept attracting much attention as “green and designer” media for chemical reactions. Room-temperature ionic liquids have emerged as a potential replacement for organic solvents in catalytic processes on both laboratory and industrial scales (Holbrey & Seddon, 1999b). Literature reports on a wide range of reactions including advances in alkylation reacti...

The dynamic Stokes shift of coumarin 153 has been measured in two room-temperature ionic liquids, 1-(3-cyanopropyl)-3-methylimidazolium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide and 1-propyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate, using the fluorescence up-conversion technique with a 230 fs instrumental response function. A component of about 10-15% of the total solvation shift is found to take place on...

The size of the sensing region in solid-state nanopores is determined by the size of the pore and the thickness of the pore membrane, so ultrathin membranes such as graphene and single-layer molybdenum disulphide could potentially offer the necessary spatial resolution for nanopore DNA sequencing. However, the fast translocation speeds (3,000-50,000 nt ms(-1)) of DNA molecules moving across suc...

Room temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) are salts with melting points close or below room temperature. They form liquids in which ions are present. This fact produces interesting solvent properties. RTIL are able to dissolve some apolar molecules as well as some very polar ones. They start to find original use in chemical analysis. Since some RTILs are not soluble in water, they can be used in w...

3,4-Dihydropyrimidin-2(1H)-ones were synthesised in high yields by one-pot three-component Biginelli condensation in the presence of room temperature ionic liquids such as 1-n-butyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate (BMImBF4) or hexafluorophosphorate (BMImPF6) as catalysts under solvent-free and neutral conditions. © 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. Recently, the interest in ...

Ionic liquids (IL) have been known for nearly a century but are recently garnering increased interest due to their unique characteristics. The term “room temperature ionic liquid” (RTIL) is often used interchangeably with “ionic liquid” and is by convention defined as an organic salt with a melting point ca. 100 °C or less. RTILs are considered part of the green chemistry paradigm due to their ...