John S. Wilkes

Air and water stable 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium based ionic liquids

A series of novel air and water stable low melting salts based upon the 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium cation (EtMeim+) have been prepared and characterized; two salts, [EtMeim]BF4...

A short history of ionic liquids—from molten salts to neoteric solvents

Ionic liquids, defined here as salts with melting temperatures below 100 °C, evolved from traditional high temperature molten salts. Some materials we would now recognize as ion...

Properties of 1,3-dialkylimidazolium chloride-aluminum chloride ionic liquids. 2. Phase transitions, densities, electrical conductivities, and viscosities

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVarticleNEXTProperties of 1,3-dialkylimidazolium chloride-aluminum chloride ionic liquids. 2. Phase transitions, densities, electrical conductivi...

Ionic Liquids in Perspective: The Past with an Eye Toward the Industrial Future

Molten salts have a long and important history in industrial chemistry, but ionic liquids have found industrial applications more recently. The "modern" history of ionic liquids...

Friedel-Crafts reactions in ambient-temperature molten salts

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTFriedel-Crafts reactions in ambient-temperature molten saltsJeffrey A. Boon, Joseph A. Levisky, J. Lloyd Pflug, and John S. WilkesCit...

Complexation of Cp2MCl2 in a chloroaluminate molten salt: relevance to homogeneous Ziegler-Natta catalysis

Dialkylimidazolium chloroaluminate melts: a new class of room-temperature ionic liquids for electrochemistry, spectroscopy and synthesis

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTDialkylimidazolium chloroaluminate melts: a new class of room-temperature ionic liquids for electrochemistry, spectroscopy and synthe...