“…Early advances were motivated to develop ILs as green, nonvolatile, nonflammable, and stable solvents, however, recent findings have broadened the field, redefining ILs as low melting salts (melting point <100°C) with an unlimited suite of tunable properties including toxicity, volatility, flammability, and instability . The erstwhile narrow perspective that views ILs as salts of quaternary ammonium, imidazolium, pyrrolidinium, pyridinium, or phosphonium cations has broadened as new cations including the bioinspired cholinium and guanidinium cations as well as metal‐containing cations are paired with various anions to afford salts that meet the definition of IL (Figure ). The evolving complexity of the precursors fosters a conjecture that explains their characteristically low melting point by the structural heterogeneity of a sterically hindered asymmetric cation that impedes strong ionic interaction with the anion as well as precludes ordered packing within a crystal lattice.…”