Abstract
Electrochemistry is dominated by the study of species dissolved in solution. In principle, any liquid may be used as a solvent, being water and organic solvents such as dichloromethane and acetonitrile, for instance, commonly employed in this role. Ionic liquids (ILs), which consist of combinations of cations and anions, may provide alternative solvents, but they are far from new. In many cases, they are the typical oils that have surrounded synthetic chemists for centuries when the required product is an organic salt. Nonetheless, in the last 15 years or so they have attracted significant attention, and at the present are being sought as highly valuable solvents.
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Torriero, A.A.J. (2015). Introduction. In: Torriero, A. (eds) Electrochemistry in Ionic Liquids. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15132-8_11
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