Are ionic liquids eco-friendly?

SS de Jesus, R Maciel Filho - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
Ionic liquids are molten salts that have excellent chemical and thermal stability. Because
they have qualities inherent to some precepts of green chemistry, they are identified as a …

Review of the toxic effects of ionic liquids

CW Cho, TPT Pham, Y Zhao, S Stolte… - Science of The Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Interest in ionic liquids (ILs), called green or designer solvents, has been increasing
because of their excellent properties such as thermal stability and low vapor pressure; thus …

Ionic liquids toxicity—benefits and threats

J Flieger, M Flieger - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Ionic liquids (ILs) are solvents with salt structures. Typically, they contain organic cations
(ammonium, imidazolium, pyridinium, piperidinium or pyrrolidinium), and halogen …

Environmental application, fate, effects, and concerns of ionic liquids: a review

M Amde, JF Liu, L Pang - Environmental science & technology, 2015 - ACS Publications
Ionic liquids (ILs) comprise mostly of organic salts with negligible vapor pressure and low
flammability that are proposed as replacements for volatile solvents. ILs have been …

Evaluation of toxicity and biodegradability of choline chloride based deep eutectic solvents

K Radošević, MC Bubalo, VG Srček, D Grgas… - Ecotoxicology and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Deep eutectic solvents (DESs) have been dramatically expanding in popularity as a new
generation of environmentally friendly solvents with possible applications in various …

A brief overview of the potential environmental hazards of ionic liquids

MC Bubalo, K Radošević, IR Redovniković… - Ecotoxicology and …, 2014 - Elsevier
Over past decades ionic liquids, a promising alternative to traditional organic solvents, have
been dramatically expanding in popularity as a new generation of chemicals with potential …

Selected issues related to the toxicity of ionic liquids and deep eutectic solvents—a review

B Kudłak, K Owczarek, J Namieśnik - Environmental Science and …, 2015 - Springer
Green Chemistry plays a more and more important role in implementing rules of sustainable
development to prevent environmental pollution caused by technological processes, while …

Toxicity of ionic liquids: eco (cyto) activity as complicated, but unavoidable parameter for task‐specific optimization

KS Egorova, VP Ananikov - ChemSusChem, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Rapid progress in the field of ionic liquids in recent decades led to the development of many
outstanding energy‐conversion processes, catalytic systems, synthetic procedures, and …

Mechanisms of action of ionic liquids on living cells: The state of the art

P Kumari, VVS Pillai, A Benedetto - Biophysical reviews, 2020 - Springer
Ionic liquids (ILs) are a relatively new class of organic electrolytes composed of an organic
cation and either an organic or inorganic anion, whose melting temperature falls around …

Ionic liquids as green solvent and their applications in bioactive compounds extraction from plants

JR Lim, LS Chua, AA Mustaffa - Process Biochemistry, 2022 - Elsevier
The unfavourable impacts of organic solvents on the environmental and human health have
increasingly drawn the attention of scientists and technologists for a long run solution …