“…Starting from the first report by Katritzky et al [45], BILs were investigated in fields that comprise CO 2 capture and conversion [46,47], electronics [48][49][50], dye solar cells [51], anticancer and antibacterial agents [52,53], bioremediation technologies [54,55], fuel desulfurization [56], extraction [57], lignin conversion [58], and fuel cell [59,60]. On the other hand, an area in which BILs were heavily studied is organic synthesis, where they were successfully used as catalysts in several reaction classes such as the Biginelli reaction [61], the Micheal reaction [62,63], condensations [64][65][66][67], alkylations [68], amine formylation [69], coupling [70], and esterifications [71]. Furthermore, the use of BILs as catalysts has also been reported in the preparation of natural-derived building blocks: in the transesterification of castor oil with methanol [72], in the production of ethyl levulinate [73] and in the preparation of 5-hydroxymethyl furfural starting from chitosan [74].…”