Ionic Liquids Completely Uncoiled: Critical Expert Overviews

Ionic Liquids Completely UnCOILed: Critical Expert Overviews concludes the discussion of new processes and developments in ionic liquid technology introduced in the first two volumes, Ionic Liquids UnCOILed: Critical Expert Overviews and Ionic Liquids Further UnCOILed: Critical Expert Overviews.

The goal of this volume is to provide expert overviews that range from applied to theoretical, synthetic to structural, and toxicological to philosophical, while also offering consistent abbreviations of ionic liquids throughout the text. Written by an international group of key academic chemists, this final book in the series presents eleven overviews of specific areas of ionic liquid chemistry including:

‧ A discussion of what is an ionic liquid
‧ Molecular modelling and spectroscopic studies
‧ Ionic liquid structure in the fluid state
‧ Ionic liquid structure in the solid state
‧ Chemical engineering of ionic liquid processes
‧ Toxicity of ionic liquids
‧ Novel ionic liquids
‧ Organic reaction mechanisms

Dr. 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 (Queen’s University Ionic Liquid Laboratories) Research Centre, focussing on various aspects of ionic liquids, including their synthesis, characterisation, and applications (including biomass dissolution and carbon dioxide capture).

Prof. KENNETH R. SEDDON, OBE is Chair of Inorganic Chemistry at the Queen’s University of Belfast, and director of the QUILL Research Centre, the world-leading industrial-academic consortium that was awarded the 2006 Queens’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education, and was involved with implementing a full-scale process for removing mercury from natural gas streams with Petronas, for which an unprecedented three global IChemE awards (2013), and the Nicklin medal, along with the ‘Teamwork in Innovation’ Award (2014) from the Royal Society of Chemistry were presented.