General review of ionic liquids and their properties / Urszula Domanska -- The experimental and theoretical structure of ionic liquids / Tristan G.A. Youngs, Chris Hardacre, and Claire Mullan -- Ionic liquid advances in optical, electrochemical, and biochemical sensor technology / Sheila N. Baker ... [et al.] -- Ionic liquids as dual nature stationary phases in gas chromatography / Jared L. Anderson -- Ionic liquids in liquid chromatography / Apryll M. Stalcup -- Ionic liquids as background electrolytes in capillary electrophoresis / Merike Vaher and M. Kaljurand -- Ionic liquids as stationary phases in countercurrent chromatography / Alain Berthod, Maria-Jose Ruiz-Angel and Samuel Carda-Broch -- Gas solubilities in ionic liquids and related measurement techniques / Joan F. Brennecke, Zulema Lopez-Castillo and Berlyn R. Mellein -- Liquid-liquid extraction of organic compounds / Igor V. Pletnev, Svetlana V. Smirnova, and Vladimir M. Egorov -- Separation of metal ions based on ionic liquids / Huimin Luo and Sheng Dai -- Molecular spectroscopy and ILs / Mihkel Koel -- Raman spectroscopy, ab-initio model calculations and conformational equilibria in ionic liquids / Rolf W. Berg -- NMR spectroscopy in ionic liquids / Ralf Giernoth -- Ionic liquids and mass spectrometry / Andreas Tholey.