Applications of chiral ionic liquids

Despite the rapid growth in chiral ionic liquid (CIL) research, successful applications remained hidden for some time, but are increasing fast nowadays. The major part of this review deals with the use of CILs as solvents, catalysts or ligands in asymmetric synthesis. Chiral recognition abilities in spectroscopic techniques such as NMR, NIR or fluorescence spectroscopy are discussed as well as the application of CILs for separation in chromatography. In this review, we focus entirely on the applications of CILs; publications dealing with design and synthesis of CILs only are not mentioned. ((C) Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 69451 Weinheim, Germany, 2008).