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Fundamentals of Ionic Liquids

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Production of Biofuels and Chemicals with Ionic Liquids

Part of the book series: Biofuels and Biorefineries ((BIOBIO,volume 1))

Abstract

Ionic liquids (ILs) are composed of cations and anions that exist as liquids at relatively low temperatures (<100 °C). They have many attractive properties, such as chemical and thermal stability, low flammability, and immeasurably low vapor pressures. This review provides a summary of the fundamental structural features of ionic liquids, the physical properties, and their applications as solvents for biomass.

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Acknowledgements

This research was supported financially by the Projects of International Cooperation and Exchanges NSFC (No. 21210006), Natural Science Foundation of Beijing of China (No.2131005, No.2132055) and National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 Program) (No. 2012AA063001).

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  1. Beijing Key Laboratory of ILs Clean Process, Key Laboratory of Green Process and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Complex Systems, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, People’s Republic of China

    Junli Xu, Qing Zhou, Xinxin Wang, Xingmei Lu & Suojiang Zhang

  2. College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, People’s Republic of China

    Junli Xu

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Xu, J., Zhou, Q., Wang, X., Lu, X., Zhang, S. (2014). Fundamentals of Ionic Liquids. In: Fang, Z., Smith, Jr., R., Qi, X. (eds) Production of Biofuels and Chemicals with Ionic Liquids. Biofuels and Biorefineries, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7711-8_1

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