Kinetic Resolution of Sec-alcohol in Non-conventional Media

Maja Habulin, Mateja Primozii and Zeljko Knez 

ILs are low melting point salts that represent an exciting new class of reaction solvents for catalysis. ILs are composed entirely from ions and possess negUgible vapour pressures and, with proper selection of the wide range of possible cations and anions, the solvent properties of ILs could be controlled. ILs have been accepted as a new green chemical revolution, which has excited both academia 

Modem Biocatalpis Stereoselective and Environmentally Friendly Reactions. Edited by Wolf-Dieter Fessner and Thorleif Anthonsen Copyright 2009 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH Co. KGaA, Weinheim ISBN 978-3-527-32071-4 

as solvents, show the most attractive properties, as they have gas-Uke low viscosities and high diffusivities and, simultaneously, they possess attractive Uquid-Uke solubilizing power. 

The volatile and non-polar SC-CO2 forms different two-phase systems with nonvolatile and polar ILs. The product recovery process with these systems is based on the principle that SC-CO2 is soluble in ILs, but ILs are not soluble in SC-CO2 

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