2.5. Stabilization of IL Emulsions by Nanoparticles 2623 3. Hydrogenations in ILs 2623 3.1. Hydrogenation on IL-Stabilized Nanoparticles 2623 3.1.1. Hydrogenation of 1,3-Butadiene 2623 3.1.2. Hydrogenation of Alkenes and Arenes 2624 3.1.3. Hydrogenation of Ketones 2624 3.2. Homogeneous Catalytic Hydrogenation in ILs 2624 3.3. Hydrogenation of Functionalized ILs 2625 3.3.1. Selective Hydrogenation of Polymers 2625 3.4. Asymmetric Hydrogenations 2626 3.4.1. Enantioselective Hydrogenation 2626 3.5. Role of the ILs Purity in Hydrogenation Reactions 2628

Catalysis in ionic liquids

Chemical and biochemical transformations in ionic liquids

A critical review of bio-diesel as a vehicular fuel.

Element-element additions to unsaturated carbon-carbon bonds catalyzed by transition metal complexes

Element-element additions to unsaturated carbon-carbon bonds catalyzed by transition metal complexes.

Among the various properties exhibited by ionic liquids (ILs)—especially those based on the imidazolium cation—their inherent ionic patterns, very low vapour pressure and pronounced self-organization in the solid, liquid and even in the gas phase are particularly interesting since this allows the use of these fluids as alternative and complementary media to classical organic solvents and water in many applications. Hence, reaction paths that involve charge-separated intermediates or transition states are accelerated—by lowering the activation barrier—in the presence of ILs when compared with those performed in classical organic solvents. It is also possible, for example, to observe, by electrochemical methods, transient species (ionic and radical) that are otherwise undetectible in water or in molecular organic solvents and to investigate the interactions and behaviour of molecular, biological and macromolecular species in solution using physical and chemical methods which require special conditions such as high-vacuum, and which have been traditionally limited to solid state chemistry.

Physico-chemical processes in imidazolium ionic liquids.

Steric Influence on the Reactivity of the (o-Carboranedithiolato)iridium(III) Complex [Ir(η5-C5Me5)(η2-S2C2B10H10)]: New Types of Addition Reactions Involving Cyclometalation or Isomerization†

Sung-Joon Kim

Papers

Steric Influence on the Reactivity of the (o-Carboranedithiolato)iridium(III) Complex [Ir(η5-C5Me5)(η2-S2C2B10H10)]: New Types of Addition Reactions Involving Cyclometalation or Isomerization†

Dicarbollide Analogues of the Constrained-Geometry Polymerization Catalyst

Investigation of New Coordination Modes for Coordinatively Unsaturated (Dithiolato)cobalt(III) Complex [(η5-Cp)Co(1,2-S2C2B10H10-S,S‘)]

Zwitterionic silver complexes as carriers for facilitated-transport composite membranes.

Role of sulfonic acids in the Sn-catalyzed transesterification of dimethyl carbonate with phenol