Biphasic hydroformylation of dec-1-ene and styrene, at commercially competitive rates, can be successfully performed in imidazolium triflate ionic liquids; the ionic liquid network forms 'inclusion complexes' with the phosphane ligands used to modify the rhodium catalyst.

The ability to induce reversible phase transitions between homogeneous solutions and biphasic liquid-liquid systems, at pre-defined and suitable operating temperatures, is of crucial relevance in the design of separation processes. Ionic-liquid-based aqueous biphasic systems (IL-based ABS) have demonstrated superior performance as alternative extraction platforms, and their thermoreversible beh...

Ionic liquids can form biphasic solvent systems with many organic solvents and water, and these solvent systems can be used in liquid-liquid separations and countercurrent chromatography. The wide range of ionic liquids that can by synthesised, with specifically tailored properties, represents a new philosophy for the separation of organic, inorganic and bio-based materials. A customised counte...

The partition of a series of dinitrophenylated amino-acids is studied experimentally in two (Ionic Liquid + Sodium Phosphate Buffer) biphasic systems at 23 oC. The ionic liquids used in these experiments are 1-hexyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate, [C6mim][BF4], and 1-decyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate, [C10mim][BF4]. pH of the initial aqueous solution is fixed at 7.4 using a sui...

liquid-liquid equilibria for the (water + lactic acid + benzyl alcohol or p-xylene) ternary systems were investigated at atmospheric pressure and in the temperature range from 298.15-318.15 k. the studied systems exhibit two types of liquid-liquid equilibrium (lle) behavior. the system consisting of benzyl alcohol displays type-1 lle behavior, while a type-2 behavior is exhibited by the other s...