Depuydt Daphne, Liu Liwang, Glorieux Christ, Dehaen Wim, Binnemans Koen
KU Leuven, Department of Chemistry, Celestijnenlaan 200F, P.O. Box 2404, B-3001 Heverlee, Belgium.
Chem Commun (Camb). 2015 Sep 28;51(75):14183-6. doi: 10.1039/c5cc05649g. Epub 2015 Aug 10.
Ionic liquids with an ether-functionalised cation and the bis(2-ethylhexyl)phosphate anion show thermomorphic behaviour in water, with a lower critical solution temperature. These ionic liquids are useful for homogeneous liquid-liquid extraction of first-row (3d) transition metals.