A short history of ionic liquids—from molten salts to neoteric solvents

By J. Wilkes. 2002

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Subfields: Catalysis, Environmental Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering

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In Catalysis

1. T. Welton
2. Maxim V. Fedorov
3. A. Kornyshev
4. M. Green
5. T. Long

In Environmental Chemistry

1. T. Welton
2. A. Kornyshev
3. M. Green
4. Maxim V. Fedorov
5. T. Long

In Mechanical Engineering

1. T. Welton
2. A. Kornyshev
3. M. Green
4. Maxim V. Fedorov
5. T. Long

Citations in the corpus

• Ionic liquids: a brief history (2018, background): “Other histories of ionic liquids, with different perspectives, are available in the literature (Wilkes 2002; Angell et al. 2012).”
• Ionic liquids at electrified interfaces. (2014, background): “…this subject already in the context of synthesis and catalysis,37,54,97 industrial applications,32,35 etc.38,98,99 A short but comprehensive overview of the history of the subject can be found in the Wilkes’ 2002 review100 (see also a recent viewpoint on the history of RTILs by Fei and Dyson101).”
• Dissolution Behavior of Chitin in Ionic Liquids (2010, background): “RTILs have been considered as the green solvent to replace the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) due to their unique physicochemical properties such as, no detected vapor pressure, a wide electrochemical window, broad liquid temperature range, and the ability to dissolve a variety of organic and ino”