Suhas Prabhakar Katdare

Mutually immiscible ionic liquids

This work presents the novel discovery of room-temperature ionic liquids that are mutually immiscible, some of which are also immiscible with solvents as diverse as water and alkanes; an archetypal biphasic system is trihexyltetradecylphosphonium chloride with 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride (where the alkyl group is shorter than hexyl).

Selective hydration of dihydromyrcene in ionic liquids

Acid catalysed direct hydration of dihydromyrcene to dihydromyrcenol proceeds selectively in ionic liquid media. By making use of the tuneable physicochemical properties of ionic liquids, and depending upon the process requirement, either biphasic or triphasic systems can be developed. The selectivity to dihydromyrcenol remains extremely high over a wide range of reaction conditions.