Meet the editors

Dr. Daniel Glossman-Mitnik is a titular researcher at the Centro de Investigación en Materiales Avanzados (CIMAV), Chihuahua, Mexico as well as a level-III national researcher for the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, Mexico. He also participates as a visiting professor at the Universitat de les Illes Balears, Palma de Mallorca, Spain. His research interest focuses on computational chemistry and molecular modeling of molecular systems useful

for pharmacological, health, food and alternative energy applications by resorting to density functional theory (DFT) and conceptual DFT. He has authored and coauthored more that 230 peer-reviewed papers and 20 book chapters as well as having edited a book on DFT. He has delivered speeches at many international and domestic conferences, and he serves as a referee for more than 80 international journals, books and research proposals.

Dr. Magdalena Maciejewska is currently Assistant Professor at Lodz University of Technology, in the Institute of Polymer and Dye Technology, Lodz, Poland. She obtained a PhD in Chemical Technology and PhD DSc from Lodz University of Technology in 2008 and 2018, respectively. Her research work has been credited with 8 national patents, more than 50 research and review articles in peer-reviewed national and international journals, 14

book chapters and 33 proceedings. She has attended more than 30 international and domestic conferences. She has supervised 50 diploma theses and was an assistant supervisor for one of them. She is currently a principal supervisor of two doctoral dissertations. Her major areas of research are elastomer composites, ionic liquids in the elastomer technology, vulcanization of elastomers and thermal analysis of polymeric materials.

Contents

**Section 1**

(Tunisia)

**Section 2**

**Preface III**

Solvents **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 27** Per- and Trichloroethylene Air Monitoring in Dry Cleaners in the City of Sfax

**Chapter 3 43**

Ionic Liquids **65**

**Chapter 4 67** Extraction of Aromatic Compounds from Their Mixtures with Alkanes: From

**Chapter 5 81**

**Chapter 6 99**

**Chapter 7 125** On the Technology of Heterogenization of Transition Metal Catalysts towards

*by Ángeles Domínguez, Begoña González, Patricia F. Requejo and Sandra Corderí*

Imidazolium Ionic Liquid-Supported Schiff Base and Its Transition Metal Complexes: Synthesis, Physicochemical Characterization and Exploration of

Progress in Ionic Liquids as Reaction Media, Monomers and Additives in

Bio-Solvents: Synthesis, Industrial Production and Applications *by Novisi K. Oklu, Leah C. Matsinha and Banothile C.E. Makhubela*

*by Kuznetsov Alexander Alexeevich and Tsegelskaya Anna Yurievna*

*by Fatma Omrane, Imed Gargouri and Moncef Khadhraoui*

Synthesis of Polyimides in the Melt of Benzoic Acid

Ternary to Quaternary (or Higher) Systems

*by Dan He, Zhengping Liu and Liyan Huang*

the Synthetic Applications in Ionic Liquid Matrix *by Alwar Ramani, Suresh Iyer and Murugesan Muthu*

Antimicrobial Activities

*by Biswajit Sinha and Sanjoy Saha*

High-Performance Polymers
