Abstract:
Classical inorganic salts (e.g. NaCl and KCl) possess high melting temperatures, which
inhibit their use as solvents or as reaction media. However, salts composed of organic
cations are liquids at relatively moderate temperatures. [1] Following such concept, the
past two decades has seen an explosion of interest in ionic liquids (ILs) as a new class
of solvents. [2-12] Ionic liquids are a group of molten salts with melting points near or
around ambient conditions (or, by convention, below 100 C). [13-15]
