“…Literature review reveals that acyclic cations such as phosphonium, ammonium, sulphonium, cholinium, and cyclic cations such as imidazolium, pyridinium, pyrrolidinium, and piperidinium, are employed in the design of ILs (Fig. 2) 87,89,101,[104][105][106] with imidazolium cations being the most extensively studied. 104 On the other hand, more exibility is available for the selection of anions since these could be inorganic, such as halides, cyanate, phosphate, sulfate, nitrate, borate, as well as organic, such as phenolate, benzoate, malonate, and amines (Fig.…”