Allan James Robertson

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an account of their research into ionic liquids from the perspective of a future, large-scale producer of ionic liquid for industrial applications, and broad comparisons are made to relevant imidazolium systems.

TL;DR: A range of phosphonium ionic liquids having the generic formula [PR3R′]X (R and R′ are alkyl groups; X is halide, trifluoromethanesulfonate, bis(trifluorsulfonyl)imide, nitrate, dialkylphosphinate, dicyanamide, decanoate, tetrafluoroborate, hexafluorophosphate, or diisobutyldithiophosphinate have been prepared, characterised, and tested for anti-

TL;DR: The first example of an empirical alternation effect for ionic liquids is presented, and the manner in which the variable chain length impacts the physical properties, such as melting points/glass transitions, thermal stability, density and viscosity is presented.

TL;DR: Ionic liquids are shown to be good solvents for elemental sulfur, selenium, phosphorus and tellurium, and can be designed to maximise the solubility of these elements.

TL;DR: This work is a continuation of an extended series of tetraalkylphosphonium ionic liquids, where the focus is on the variability of n and its impact on the physical properties, such as melting points/glass transitions, thermal stability, density and viscosity.