“…These ILs have been employed as excellent and recyclable medium for a wide array of reactions; e.g., Heck reaction [Park & Alper, 2003], Bischler-Napierlaski cyclisation [Judeh et al, 2002], Beckmann rearrangement [Ren et al, 2001], addition of thiols to unsaturated ketones [Yadav et al, 2003], l-proline catalysed aldol reaction [Loh et al, 2002] . Other examples where ILs have been used as a reaction media include, but not limited to, Diels-Alder reactions [Reinhardt, 2009;Doherty, 2004;Song, 2001], Friedel-Crafts alkylation and acylation reactions [Xiao, 2006;Xiao & Malhotra, 2005;Ross & Xiao, 2002;Itoh, 2001;Stark et al, 1999], hydroformylation reactions [Magna et al, 2007;Sharma, 2009], Pd-mediated C-C bond formation [Park & Alper, 2003], alkene polymerisation [Hardacre et al, 2002], and biotransformations [Bornscheuer & Kazlauskas, 2006]. Bortolini et al (2002) accomplished the recycling of [bmim] [PF 6 ] by washing with an aqueous solution of NaHSO 3 and then with water.…”