Ionic Liquids further UnCOILed: Critical Expert Overviews

Critical overviews from the front line of ionic liquids research Ionic Liquids Further UnCOILed: Critical Expert Overviews continues the discussion of new processes and developments in ionic liquid technology introduced in the first volume. Written by an international group of key academic and industrial chemists, this next book in the series includes eleven overviews of specific areas of ionic liquid chemistry including: Physicochemical properties of ionic liquids A patent survey Ionic liquid membrane technology Engineering simulations Molecular simulations The goal of this volume is to provide expert overviews that range from applied to theoretical, synthetic to analytical, and biotechnological to electrochemical, while also offering consistent abbreviations of ionic liquids throughout the text. The value of Ionic Liquids Further UnCOILed: Critical Expert Overviews lies in the authors expertise and their willingness to share it with the reader. Included in the book is insight into typical problems related to experimental techniques, selection of liquids, and variability of dataall of which were overseen by Professor Ken Seddon, one of the books editors and a world leader in ionic liquids. This book is a must read for RD chemists in industrial, governmental, and academic laboratories, and for commercial developers of environmentally sustainable processes. It offers insight and appreciation for the direction in which the field is going, while also highlighting the best published works available, making it equally valuable to new and experienced chemists alike.

COIL Conferences vii Preface ix Acknowledgements xi Contributors xiii Abbreviations xv 1 Ionic Liquid and Petrochemistry: A Patent Survey 1 Philippe Bonnet, Anne Pigamo, Didier Bernard, and Hélène Olivier–Bourbigou 2 Supercritical Fluids in Ionic Liquids 39 Maaike C. Kroon and Cor J. Peters 3 The Phase Behaviour of 1–Alkyl–3–Methylimidazolium Ionic Liquids 59 Keiko Nishikawa 4 Ionic Liquid Membrane Technology 87 João G. Crespo and Richard D. Noble 5 Engineering Simulations 117 David Rooney and Norfaizah ab Manan 6 Molecular Simulation of Ionic Liquids: Where We Are and the Path Forward 149 Jindal K. Shah and Edward J. Maginn 7 Biocatalytic Reactions in Ionic Liquids 193 Florian Stein and Udo Kragl 8 Ionicity in Ionic Liquids: Origin of Characteristic Properties of Ionic Liquids 217 Masayoshi Watanabe and Hiroyuki Tokuda 9 Dielectric Properties of Ionic Liquids: Achievements So Far and Challenges Remaining 235 Hermann Weingärtner 10 Ionic Liquid Radiation Chemistry 259 James F. Wishart 11 Physicochemical Properties of Ionic Liquids 275 Qing Zhou, Xingmei Lu, Suojiang Zhang, and Liangliang Guo Index 309

D R . NATALIA V. PLECHKOVA attained her BSc and MSc in chemical engineering at the Russian Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology, Moscow, and her PhD in chemistry, under the guidance of Professor Seddon. Since then she has been a research fellow and project manager in the QUILL (Queens University Ionic Liquid Laboratories) Research Centre, focussing on various aspects of ionic liquids, including their synthesis, characterisation, and applications. P ROF . KENNETH R. SEDDON is Chair of Inorganic Chemistry at the Queens University of Belfast, and director of the QUILL Research Centre, a world–leading industrial–academic consortium that was awarded the 2006 Queens Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education and has just been involved with implementing a full–scale process for removing mercury from natural gas streams with Petronas Chemicals, for which an unprecedented three global IChemE awards were presented in November 2013.