This book addresses the use of ionic liquids in biotransformation and organocatalysis. Its major parts include: an overview of the fundamentals of ionic liquids and their interactions with proteins and enzymes; the use of ILs in biotransformations; non-solvent applications such as additives, membranes, substrate anchoring, and the use of ILs in organocatalysis (from solvents to co-catalysts and new reactivities, as well as non-solvent applications such as anchoring and immobilization).

Pablo Dominguez De Maria is Group Leader at the Institute of Technical and Macromolecular Chemistry (ITMC), RWTH Aachen University in Germany. He was previously affiliated with AkzoNobel NV in the Netherlands and Degussa AG in Germany. Dr. Dominguez de Maria has also worked as a technical freelance advisor on emerging technologies (e.g., catalysis) applied to sustainable chemistry (www.sustainable-momentum.net). He was awarded the Young Scientist Prize by the Iberoamerican Academy of Pharmacy.