Catalysis with Room Temperature Ionic Liquids Mediated Metal Nanoparticles

Abstract

There has been still a growing interest in ionic liquids (ILs) for catalysis, in particular considering their tremendous success made over the past decades. Indeed, ILs for catalysis has been a main subject in chemistry and technology, and a rough estimate is that more than 6000 publications involving IL catalysis have been reported in the past fifteen years. Since there have been a large number of excellent reviews and books concerning the catalysis in ILs, in this chapter the authors mainly focus on the IL immobilized nano- or super-fine metal particles for catalysis, which could bridge or fill the gap between homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis. Detailed IL-immobilized catalyst preparation, characterization and their application in hydrogenation, C-C coupling, oxidation, etc. will be discussed.