Ionic liquids: green organic transformation with dual solvent-catalyst strategy and its multidisciplinary applications

Abstract

Ionic liquids (ILs) are liquid organic salts owning a lot of interesting properties that rapid increase various research to study their utilization in numerous fields. The enormous utilization and scope of ILs in a diversity of fields have been presented based upon available literature. ILs were firstly addressed as a green alternative to traditional solvents because of their almost non-existent vapor pressure as environmental replacement of most common volatile solvents in industrial processes for their damaging effects on the environment. Systematic and brief investigation of the several IL applications has been done highlighting some recent significant advances in every zone. This review will contribute to helpful the significant knowledge of all branch of research based on ILs. Apart from this, the tasks associated with the industrial use of ILs have been discussed, which require further investigation.