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Emerging Areas in Bioengineering
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Emerging Areas in Bioengineering

by Ho Nam Chang, Sang Yup Lee, Jens Nielsen, Gregory Stephanopoulos
March 2018
Intermediate to advanced
904 pages
29h 36m
English
Wiley-VCH
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Chapter 3Enzymatic Reactions in Ionic Liquids

Ngoc Lan Mai and Yoon-Mo Koo

3.1 Introduction

Ionic liquids (ILs) are low-melting salts composed entirely of ions. Many ILs are liquid at room temperature (so-called room temperature ionic liquids (RTILs)). They have been extensively used as potential “green” alternatives to toxic, hazardous, flammable, and highly volatile organic solvents. Unlike traditional organic solvents, ILs have many favorable properties such as negligible vapor pressure, wide liquid temperature range, nonflammability, high thermal and excellent chemical stability, high ionic conductivity, large electrochemical window, and ability to dissolve a variety of solutes. In addition, the physicochemical properties of ILs can be ...

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