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Nontoxic Ionic Liquids: Emerging Substitute for Classical Antimicrobial Materials

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Ionic liquids (ILs) have been raising significant attention as remarkable nontoxic chemical compounds in academia, medicinal, and industrial research. Ease of structural tunability and excellent physicochemical and biological properties of ILs pave the way to play an important role in the fields of synthesis, medicine, drug development, extraction, catalysis, electrochemistry, analytics, biotechnology, etc. Even it also proves the acceptability to the synthetic chemist, biochemists, ecologists, and medical scientists as an environmentally compatible solvent. The development of new ILs is an area of tremendous importance in the modern organic synthesis and particularly in synthetic medicinal chemistry. Over the last decade, the intense growth in research publication related to ionic liquid has furnished many task-specific ionic liquids as a nonhazardous and environmentally favorable alternative to the classical materials particularly for the prevention and treatment of microbial infections and many associated applications in the allied field. Hence in this entry, the entire discussion revolves around the recent interest in emerging potential application of ionic liquids as nontoxic antimicrobial materials.

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SB thanks the Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi, for the financial support of WOS-A-project (WOS-A/CS-63/2013(G)). We also thank the Central University of Gujarat for infrastructure facility.

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Mondal, D., Bera, S. (2019). Nontoxic Ionic Liquids: Emerging Substitute for Classical Antimicrobial Materials. In: Zhang, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Ionic Liquids. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6739-6_7-1

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