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Preface The chapters in these two books (Ionic Liquids IIIA: Fundamentals, Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities: Properties and Structure and Ionic Liquids IIIB: Fundamentals, Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities: Transformations and Processes) are based on papers that were presented at the symposium Ionic Liquids: Fundamentals, Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities at the 226 American Chemical Society (ACS) National Meeting held September 7-11, 2003 in New York. This was the third and last of a trilogy of meetings, the second of which was Ionic Liquids as Green Solvents: Progress and Prospects at the 224 A C S National Meeting held August 18-22, 2002 in Boston, Massachusetts, which followed, by eighteen months, the first successful ionic liquids symposium Ionic Liquids: Industrial Applications for Green Chemistry at the San Diego, California A C S meeting in April 2001. The success of the New York meeting can be judged by the simple fact that we need to publish two books to include the key papers presented, in a year in which we anticipate 1000 papers concerning ionic liquids will be published. The talks showed the depth of research currently being undertaken; the broad and diverse base for activities; and the excitement and potential opportunities that exist, and are continuing to emerge, in the field. The new industrial applications raise an especial level of interest and excitement. The New York meeting comprised ten half-day sessions that broadly reflected the areas of development and interest in ionic liquids. We are indebted to the session organizers who each planned and developed a half-day session, invited the speakers, and presided over the session. The featured topics and the presiding organizers for each session were Ionic Liquid Tutorials (J. F . Brennecke, J. D . Holbrey, R. D . Rogers, K . R. Seddon, and T. Welton), Fuels and Applications (J. H . Davis, Jr.) Physical and Thermodynamic Properties (L. P. N . Rebelo), Catalysis and Synthesis (P. Wasserscheid), Spectroscopy (S. Pandey), Separations (W. Tumas), Novel Applications (R. A . Mantz and P. C. Trulove), Catalytic Polymers and Gels (H. Ohno), Electrochemistry (D. R. McFarlane), Inorganic and Materials ( M . Deetlefs and J. Holbrey), and General Contributions (R. D . Rogers and K . R. Seddon). Page restrictions th
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prevented the publication of all the presentations (despite having the luxury of two volumes); however, we tried to select a representative subset of the papers. Among the wonderful chemical contributions, there was one chastening note; a minute's silence was held at 8:46 on the morning of September 11 to remember those thousands of innocent people who had died exactly two years earlier very close to the Javits Conference Center in which we were holding the meeting. It was hard to escape the emotional impact of those events on that day. The symposium was successful because of the invaluable support it received from industry, academia, government, and our professional society. Industrial support was received from Cytec Industries, Fluka, Merck K G a A / E M D Chemicals, S A C H E M , Solvent Innovation, and Strem Chemicals. Academic contributions were received from The University of Alabama Center for Green Manufacturing and The Queen's University Ionic Liquid Laboratory (QUILL). The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Green Chemistry Program also supported the meeting. O f course, we are (as always) indebted to the A C S and its many programs for their help, encouragement, and support. We especially thank the A C S Division of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Inc., the I & E C Separations Science & Technology and Green Chemistry & Engineering Subdivisions, and the Green Chemistry Institute. Another measure of success was the impressive strength of the student contributions, i n the tutorial, oral, and poster sessions; on this basis, our future is in safe hands. And, as is definitively true in a burgeoning field, the future is always more exciting than the past!!
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