Cellulose dissolution with polar ionic liquids under mild conditions: required factors for anions

By Y. Fukaya, K. Hayashi, M. Wada, Hiroyuki Ohno. 2008

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Interaction of ionic liquids with polysaccharides. 5. Solvents and reaction media for the modification of cellulose (2008, background): “The compounds used in the beginning had alkylpyridinium cations (Gale et al. 1978).”
Overview of biomass pretreatment for cellulosic ethanol production. (2009, background): “7 Ionic liquids (ILs) pretreatment ILs technique has recently received extensive research attention on the cellulose dissolution([153-158]).”
Dissolution Behavior of Chitin in Ionic Liquids (2010, background): “[26–28] It was found that ionic liquids (ILs) such as alkylimidazolium chloride,[29,30] alkylpyridinium chloride,[31] alkylimidazolium carboxylates,[32] and alkylimidazolium dialkyl phosphate[33] can dissolve cellulose in high concentrations without derivatization.”
Ionic liquid‐mediated selective extraction of lignin from wood leading to enhanced enzymatic cellulose hydrolysis (2009, background): “A good correlation of b values, corresponding to the hydrogen bond accepting capacity of ILs, with cellulose dissolution has been reported ( Fukaya et al., 2006, 2008 ).”