Issue 3, 2010
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Green Chemistry

Dissolution of cork biopolymers in biocompatible ionic liquids

Helga Garcia,†a   Rui Ferreira,†a   Marija Petkovic,a   Jamie L. Ferguson,b   Maria C. Leitão,a   H. Q. Nimal Gunaratne,b   Kenneth R. Seddon,ab   Luís Paulo N. Rebeloa  and  Cristina Silva Pereira*ac  

* Corresponding authors

a Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Apartado 127, Oeiras, Portugal
E-mail: spereira@itqb.unl.pt

b The Queen's University Ionic Liquid Laboratories (QUILL), The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, UK

c Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica, Apartado 12, Oeiras, Portugal

Abstract

Classically, the best attempts to separate suberin from cork biopolymers have resulted in low efficiency; here, we report a class of biocompatible and biodegradable cholinium-based ionic liquids, the cholinium alkanoates, which show a highly efficient and specific dissolution of the suberin domains from cork biopolymers.

Graphical abstract: Dissolution of cork biopolymers in biocompatible ionic liquids

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Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B922553F
Article type
Communication
Submitted
28 Oct 2009
Accepted
04 Dec 2009
First published
05 Jan 2010

Green Chem., 2010,12, 367-369

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Dissolution of cork biopolymers in biocompatible ionic liquids

H. Garcia, R. Ferreira, M. Petkovic, J. L. Ferguson, M. C. Leitão, H. Q. N. Gunaratne, K. R. Seddon, L. P. N. Rebelo and C. Silva Pereira, Green Chem., 2010, 12, 367 DOI: 10.1039/B922553F

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