How widely deployable ionic solvents will prove to be in practice remains to be seen.
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This is because the ionic reaction uses less of the expensive catalyst involved.
Once cooled, they would be reinvigorated back to their original ionic states by an external electric current, and pumped back into the chip.
The ionic layers are also very close indeed to the surfaces of the electrodes, and obviously run parallel with them whatever their shape.
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And, pursuing this idea to its logical conclusion, Elementis Specialties, a British company, has gone one step further designing ionic solvents that themselves act as catalysts.
But ionic solvents should find some immediate uses in existing processes.
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That is because, as in the case of the Diels-Alder reaction, it is usually possible to design an ionic solvent that dissolves the reactants easily but is reluctant to give house room to the resultant product.
In the past year, for example, Dr Seddon and Tom Welton, a chemist at Imperial College London, have shown that one of the most important and difficult processes in industrial organic chemistry, the Diels-Alder reaction (which links carbon atoms together and thus allows big molecules to be assembled) can work better in ionic than in conventional solvents.
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