“…In recent years, ionic liquids, as a non-volatile green medium, have been widely used in many catalytic reactions and organic synthesis reactions as catalysts and reaction media due to their stable chemical properties, and good solubility in many inorganic and organic substances, moreover, their properties can be tuned by changing the structure of anions and cations. 10,11 In olefin oligomerization, acidic ionic liquids are currently used instead of catalysts such as liquid acids, solid phosphoric acid and nickel catalysts, solving the disadvantages of liquid acid catalysts which are not environmentally friendly due to their strong corrosiveness, as well as the disadvantages of solid acids such as rapid deactivation, poor controllability of product distribution, non-uniformity of acidic sites and complex waste disposal problems. The chloroaluminate Lewis-acid ionic liquid was successfully applied to the oligomerization of C2–C8 olefins.…”