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AbstractThe use of ionic liquids (ILs) as solvent in the liquid-liquid extraction of aromatic compounds is one of their most studied applications. Nevertheless, the recovery of the extracted hydrocarbons has been much less investigated, being a required task to complete the global separation process. Taking into account the negligible vapor pressure of the ILs, this step could be easily carried out by flash distillation, which requires the study of vapor-liquid equilibrium (VLE). In order to study this topic deeper, in this work a systematic analysis of the VLE and vapor-liquid-liquid equilibrium (VLLE) data for {aromatic hydrocarbon + IL} binary mixtures was carried out, from both an experimental and computational point of view. For that, new experimental VLE and VLLE data of 24 {toluene + IL} binary mixtures were