Chapter 4:3 EPR spectroscopy in room temperature ionic liquids

This report presents an overview of the literature on the use of EPR spectroscopy to study ionic liquids as solvents. After a short in overview on the history and the outstanding properties of ionic liquids, the report focusses on EPR investigations of rotational correlation times obtained with various spin probes, on biradicals, on electron self-exchange reactions as well as on synthetic and mechanistic aspects of ionic liquids.