Determination of ionic liquids toxicity scores

What is it about?

This approach allowed derivation of aquatic toxicity scores for 104 ILs and bacteria and fungi toxicity scores for 87ILs. Further evidence on the effects of cation structural features such as the increase of IL toxicityon increasing the length of the side chain and its decrease when oxygen atoms are present in the sidechain was obtained. Maximum dialkyloxyether imidazolium toxicity was observed for ILs having 7–9carbon atoms in each side chain

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Why is it important?

This work attempts for the first time to summarize quantitative information about different biological tests related to "toxicity" and reports toxicity scores for a large number of ILs.