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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 countercurrent chromatograph has been designed and constructed specifically to allow the more viscous character of ionic liquid-based solvent systems to be used in a wide variety of separations (including transition metal salts, arenes, alkenes, alkanes, bio-oils and sugars).
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Brown, L., Earle, M.J., Gîlea, M.A., Plechkova, N.V., Seddon, K.R. (2017). Ionic Liquid–Liquid Chromatography: A New General Purpose Separation Methodology. In: Kirchner, B., Perlt, E. (eds) Ionic Liquids II. Topics in Current Chemistry Collections. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89794-3_4
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