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Nanotechnology-Based Industrial Applications of Ionic Liquids

  • Discusses ionic liquids as a substitute for conventional solvents in chemical processes
  • Details the process of organic and drug synthesis where ionic liquid is used as a solvent
  • Includes applications of industrial product development where ionic liquid is used as a solvent

Part of the book series: Nanotechnology in the Life Sciences (NALIS)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
  2. Ionic Liquids as “Green Solvents”: Are they Safe?

    • Gabriela Brasil Romão Veloso, Rebecca S. Andrade, Regina Maria Barretto Cicarelli, Miguel Iglesias, Bruna Galdorfini Chiari-Andréo
    Pages 1-25
  3. Ionic Liquids: Green Solvent for Biomass Pretreatment

    • Uroosa Ejaz, Muhammad Sohail
    Pages 27-36
  4. Ionic Liquids as Solvents and Catalysts for Biodiesel Production

    • P. Andreo-Martínez, V. M. Ortiz-Martínez, J. Quesada-Medina
    Pages 37-50
  5. Biocatalysis in Ionic Liquids: Enzymatic Synthesis of Sugar Fatty Acid Esters

    • Sara Isabel da Cruz Silvério, Lígia Raquel Marona Rodrigues
    Pages 51-79
  6. Ionic Liquid for the Extraction of Plant Phenolics

    • Muhammad Mushtaq, Sumia Akram
    Pages 81-97
  7. Ionic Liquids for the Sustainable Development of Chemistry

    • Haydar Göksu, Nursefa Zengin, Hilal Acıdereli, Ayşenur Aygün, Kemal Cellat, Fatih Şen
    Pages 99-111
  8. Ionic Liquids for Enhanced Enzymatic Saccharification of Cellulose-Based Materials

    • Carmen-Alice Teacă, Cristina-Magdalena Stanciu, Fulga Tanasă, Mărioara Nechifor
    Pages 113-135
  9. Ionic Liquid for Water Purification

    • Syeda Mariam Hasany, Sumia Akram, Muhammad Mushtaq, Ahmad Adnan
    Pages 153-176
  10. Role of Ionic Liquid-Based Multipurpose Gas Hydrate and Corrosion Inhibitors in Gas Transmission Pipeline

    • Ali Qasim, Bhajan Lal, Azmi Mohammad Shariff, Mokhtar Che Ismail
    Pages 221-244
  11. Production of Biodiesel Using Ionic Liquids

    • Seán O’Connor, Suresh C. Pillai, Ehiaze Ehimen, John Bartlett
    Pages 245-269
  12. Applications of Ionic Liquids in Chemical Reactions

    • Venkata Durga Nageswar Yadavalli, Jayathirtha Rao Vaidya
    Pages 311-352
  13. Role of Ionic Liquids in Food and Bioproduct Industries

    • Kasibhatta Siva Kumar
    Pages 353-390
  14. Back Matter

    Pages 391-400

About this book

Numerous solvents used in chemical processes have poisonous and unsafe properties that pose significant ecological concerns ranging from atmospheric emissions to the contamination of water effluents. To combat these ecological threats, over the course of the past two decades, the field of green chemistry has grown to develop more natural reaction processes and techniques involving the use of nonconventional solvents to diminish waste solvent production and thus decrease negative impact on the environment.

Ionic liquids in particular are more environmentally friendly substitutes to conventional solvents, and as such, have seen more widespread use in the past decade. They have been used in such processes as extraction, separation, purification of organic, inorganic, and bioinorganic compounds, reaction media in biochemical and chemical catalysis, green organic and drug synthesis, among other industrial applications. Thus, in proving themselves a suitable greener media for economic viability in chemical processes, ionic liquids are leading to more sustainable development. 

This edition explores the application of ionic liquids as a green solvent. It contains a state-of-the-art overview on ionic liquids as green solvents for chemical processes and techniques, as well as some of their useful industrial applications.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Chemistry Department, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Department of Applied Chemistry, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India

    Inamuddin

  • Chemistry Department, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

    Abdullah M. Asiri

About the editors

Dr. Inamuddin is currently working as Assistant Professor in the Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He is a permanent faculty member (Assistant Professor) at the Department of Applied Chemistry, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India. He obtained Master of Science degree in Organic Chemistry from Chaudhary Charan Singh (CCS) University, Meerut, India, in 2002. He received his Master of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Applied Chemistry from Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), India, in 2004 and 2007, respectively. He has extensive research experience in multidisciplinary fields of Analytical Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, and Electrochemistry and, more specifically, Renewable Energy and Environment. He has worked on different research projects as project fellow and senior research fellow funded by University Grants Commission (UGC), Government of India, and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Government of India. He has received Fast Track Young Scientist Award from the Department of Science and Technology, India, to work in the area of bending actuators and artificial muscles. He has completed four major research projects sanctioned by University Grant Commission, Department of Science and Technology, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, and Council of Science and Technology, India. He has published 152 research articles in international journals of repute and eighteen book chapters in knowledge-based book editions published by renowned international publishers. He has published 67 edited books with Springer (U.K.), Elsevier, Nova Science Publishers, Inc. (U.S.A.), CRC Press Taylor & Francis Asia Pacific, Trans Tech Publications Ltd. (Switzerland), IntechOpen Limited (U.K.), and Materials Research Forum LLC (U.S.A). He is a member of various journals’ editorial boards. He is also serving as Associate Editor for journals (Environmental ChemistryLetter, Applied Water Science and Euro-Mediterranean Journal for Environmental Integration, Springer-Nature), Frontiers Section Editor (Current Analytical Chemistry, Bentham Science Publishers), Editorial Board Member (Scientific Reports-Nature), Editor (Eurasian Journal of Analytical Chemistry), and Review Editor (Frontiers in Chemistry, Frontiers, U.K.) He is also guest-editing various special thematic special issues to the journals of Elsevier, Bentham Science Publishers, and John Wiley & Sons, Inc. He has attended as well as chaired sessions in various international and national conferences. He has worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow, leading a research team at the Creative Research Initiative Center for Bio-Artificial Muscle, Hanyang University, South Korea, in the field of renewable energy, especially biofuel cells. He has also worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center of Research Excellence in Renewable Energy, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia, in the field of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells and computational fluid dynamics of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells. He is a life member of the Journal of the Indian Chemical Society. His research interest includes ion exchange materials, a sensor for heavy metal ions, biofuel cells, supercapacitors and bending actuators.

Prof. Abdullah M. Asiri is the Head of the Chemistry Department at King Abdulaziz University since October 2009 and he is the founder and the Director of the Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials Research (CEAMR) since 2010 till date. He is the Professor of Organic Photochemistry. He graduated from King Abdulaziz University (KAU) with B.Sc. in Chemistry in 1990 and a Ph.D. from University of Wales, College of Cardiff, U.K. in 1995. His research interest covers color chemistry, synthesis of novel photochromic and thermochromic systems, synthesis of novel coloring matters and dyeing of textiles, materials chemistry, nanochemistry and nanotechnology, polymers and plastics. Prof. Asiri is the principal supervisors of more than 20 M.Sc. and six Ph.D. theses. He is the main author of ten books of different chemistry disciplines. Prof. Asiri is the Editor-in-Chief of King Abdulaziz University Journal of Science. A major achievement of Prof. Asiri is the research of tribochromic compounds, a new class of compounds which change from slightly or colorless to deep colored when subjected to small pressure or when grind. This discovery was introduced to the scientific community as a new terminology published by International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) in 2000. This discovery was awarded a patent from European Patent office and from UK patent. Prof. Asiri involved in many committees at the KAU level and on the national level. He took a major role in the advanced materials committee working for King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) to identify the national plan for science and technology in 2007. Prof. Asiri played a major role in advancing the chemistry education and research in KAU. He has been awarded the best researchers from KAU for the past five years. He also awarded the Young Scientist Award from the Saudi Chemical Society in 2009 and also the first prize for the distinction in science from the Saudi Chemical Society in 2012. He also received a recognition certificate from the American Chemical Society (Gulf region Chapter) for the advancement of chemical science in the Kingdome. He received a Scopus certificate for the most publishing scientist in Saudi Arabia in chemistry in 2008. He is also a member of the editorial board of various journals of international repute. He is the Vice- President of Saudi Chemical Society (Western Province Branch). He holds four USA patents, more than one thousand publications in international journals, several book chapters and edited books.


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