What prices can be expected for Ionic Liquids?
• Prices will mainly depend on the quantity in which specific Ionic Liquids are produced – most of the Ionic Liquids today are manufactured only in kg quantities and therefore are offered at high prices. The price will be also influenced by specific requirements on specification parameters if these make additional manufacturing steps necessary. • BASF expects to see prices standard quality Ionic Liquids with growing demands in tons quantities below 30€/kg (this expectation is based on first production runs carried our at BASF on a ton scale) • The often mentioned correlation “imidazolium salts are expensive, pyridinium, pyrrolidinium, ammonium, phosphonium etc. salts are less expensive” does not correlate with our calculations. Based on the backward integration within BASF we have internally access to a very broad range of Ionic Liquid precursors enabling us to carry out these calculations with a high degree of accuracy. As it comes to larger quantities, always the performance of the I
