“…Due to the increasing demand for sustainability in the chemical industry, replacing traditional reaction media with novel and environmentally benign ones is especially highlighted in recent studies. Ionic liquids (ILs) and supercritical fluids (SCFs), especially supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO 2 ), are two kinds of newly emerging green media showing potential applications in chemical reactions (Leitner 1999, 2002, Mikami 2005, Keskin et al 2007, Kerton and Marriott 2009, Qureshi et al 2014. Other green reaction media such as water, ethanol, aqueous surfactant micelles, and polymers, as well as solvent-free conditions, are excluded in the scope of this review.…”