Preface
1. Ionic Liquids as Pharmaceutical Salts: A Historical Perspective
Vineet Kumar and Sanjay V. Malhotra
2. Ionic Liquids: New Opportunities for the Chemistry of Amino Acids, Peptides, and Pharmaceutical Compounds
James Ternois, Laurent Ferron, Gérard Coquerel, Frédéric Guillen, and Jean-Christophe Plaquevent
3. Enzymatic Membrane Reactor for Resolution of Ketoprofen in Ionic Liquids and Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Pedro Lozano, Teresa De Diego, Arturo Manjón, Miguel A. Abad, Michel Vaultier, and José L. Iborra
4. Development of a Universal Method Based on Ionic Liquids for Determination of Enantiomeric Compositions of Pharmaceutical Products
Chieu D. Tran
5. New Method for Installation of the Imidazole Ring and Synthesis of Biologically Active Molecules with Ionic Liquid-Like Structures
Yuichi Kobayashi, Yohei Kiyotsuka, Hukum P. Acharya, and Key Miyoshi
6. Separation and Recovery of Penicillin in an Integrated System Containing Ionic Liquids
Yangyang Jiang, Chen Guo, Hansong Xia, and Huizhou Liu
7. Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Penicillin in an Integrated System Containing Ionic Liquids
Yangyang Jiang, Chen Guo, Hansong Xia, and Huizhou Liu
8. Antitumor Activity of Ionic Liquids on Human Tumor Cell Lines
Vineet Kumar and Sanjay V. Malhotra
9. Preparation of Ionic Liquid-Modified Inorganic Nanoparticles and Their Biomedical Application
Asako Narita, Kensuke Naka, and Yoshiki Chujo
10. Preparation of Biopolymer-Based Materials Using Ionic Liquids for the Biomedical Application
Sang Hyun Lee, Minoru Miyauchi, Jonathan S. Dordick, and Robert J. Linhardt
11. Toxicological Evaluation of Ionic Liquids
Raquel F. M. Frade, Ana Matias, Luis C. Branco, Nuno M. T. Lourenço, João N. Rosa, Carlos A. M. Afonso, and Catarina M. M. Duarte
12. Formation of Anhydrosugars from Polysaccharides in Ionic Liquids by Microwave Irradiation
Hiroe Satoh, Momoko Hayashi, Toshifumi Satoh, Toyoji Kakuchi, Harumi Kaga, and Kenji Takahashi
13. Chiral Pyrrolidine-Substituted Ionic Liquid-Mediated Activation of Enzyme
Toshiyuki Itoh, Yoshikazu Abe, Takuya Hirakawa, Nagisa Okano, Shino Nakajima, Shuichi Hayase, Motoi Kawatsura, Tomoko Matsuda, and Kaoru Nakamura
14. Deep Eutectic Solvents for Candida antarctica Lipase B-Catalyzed Reactions
Johnathan T. Gorke, Friedrich Srienc, and Romas J. Kazlauskas
15. Enzyme Catalysis in Ionic Liquids and Supercritical Carbon Dioxide
Pedro Lozano, Teresa De Diego, Michel Vaultier, and José L. Iborra
16. On the Merge of Fungal Activity with Ionic Liquids towards the Development of New Biotechnological Processes
M. Petkovic, J. Ferguson, A. Bohn, J. R. Trindade, I. Martins, C. Leitão, M. B. Carvalho, C. Rodrigues, H. Garcia, R. Ferreira, K. R. Seddon, L. P. N. Rebelo, and C. Silva Pereira