Ionic liquid droplet as e-microreactor

P Dubois, G Marchand, Y Fouillet, J Berthier…

Index: Dubois, Philippe; Marchand, Gilles; Fouillet, Yves; Berthier, Jean; Douki, Thierry; Hassine, Fatima; Gmouh, Said; Vaultier, Michel Analytical Chemistry, 2006 , vol. 78, # 14 p. 4909 - 4917

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Abstract

A powerful approach combining a droplet-based, open digital microfluidic lab-on-a-chip using task-specific ionic liquids as soluble supports to perform solution-phase synthesis is reported as a new tool for chemical applications. The negligible volatility of ionic liquids enables their use as stable droplet reactors on a chip surface under air. The concept was validated with different ionic liquids and with a multicomponent reaction. Indeed, we ...