Sylwia Studzińska,a Piotr Stepnowski,b Bogusław Buszewskia*
a Department of Environmental Chemistry and Bioanalytics, Nicolaus
Copernicus University, Faculty of Chemistry, 7 Gagarin Str., PL-87-100 Toruñ,
Poland.
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bbusz@chem.uni.torun.pl
b Waste Management Laboratory, Faculty of Chemistry, University of
Gdańsk, Sobieskiego 18 Str., PL 80-952 Gdańsk, Poland
Paper based on a presentation at the 12th International Symposium on Separation Sciences, Lipica, Slovenia, September 27–29, 2006.
Abstract
The interest in ionic liquids is in constant increase due to their popularity in
various applications. The wide applicability of these compounds is the main
reason of their use on industrial scale, especially in organic synthesis. This
leads to the presence of ionic liquids in water and soils. Therefore, there is a
need to study their toxicology and to better understand the basis of it. The
main aim of the contribution is to review the existing knowledge about the
influence of ionic liquids on living organisms and to provide information about
the use of chromatographic and chemometric methods in evaluation of properties
of ionic liquids.
Keywords: ionic liquids, chromatography, stationary phase, chemometric, QSAR