Modeling of supported ionic liquid catalysts systems—from idea to applications

The modeling of chemical reactions studied in small scale, often carried out in Academia, is very important since it gives more information about the system and better possibilities to scale-up the processes in the future. Supported ionic liquid catalysts (SILCAs) have been studied in a number of different processes. However, the modeling of these processes have been studied only in a few cases. In this paper the sample cases are reviewed. These processes include hydrogenation of unsaturated aldehydes as well as isomerization of terpenes, α- and β-pinene oxides.