Aqueous Mixtures of Room-Temperature Ionic Liquids: Entropy-Driven Accumulation of Water Molecules at Interfaces

2019 ◽  
Vol 123 (22) ◽  
pp. 13795-13803 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takeshi Kobayashi ◽  
Andre Kemna ◽  
Maria Fyta ◽  
Björn Braunschweig ◽  
Jens Smiatek
2003 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 152-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chieu D. Tran ◽  
Silvia H. De Paoli Lacerda ◽  
Daniel Oliveira

Near-infrared (NIR) spectrometry was successfully used for the noninvasive and in situ determination of concentrations and structure of water absorbed by room-temperature ionic liquids (RTILs). It was found that RTILs based on 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium, namely, [BuMIm]+[BF4]−, [BuMIm]+[bis((trifluoromethyl)sulfonyl)amide, or Tf2N]− and [BuMIm]+[PF6]−, are hydroscopic and can quickly absorb water when they are exposed to air. Absorbed water interacts with the anions of the RTILs, and these interactions lead to changes in the structure of water. Among the RTILs studied, [BF4]− provides the strongest interactions and [PF6]− the weakest. In 24 hours, [BuMIm]+[BF4]− can absorb up to 0.320 M of water, whereas [BuMIm]+[PF6]− can only absorb 8.3 × 10−2 M of water. It seems that higher amounts of water can be absorbed when the anion of the RTIL can strongly interact and hence stabilize absorbed water molecules by forming hydrogen bonds with them or inducing hydrogen bonds among water molecules. More importantly, the NIR technique can be sensitively used for the noninvasive, in situ determination of absorbed water in RTILs, without any pretreatment, and at limits of detection as low as 3.20 × 10−3 M.


2015 ◽  
Vol 53 (5) ◽  
pp. 369-378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takatsugu Endo ◽  
Mamoru Imanari ◽  
Yuki Hidaka ◽  
Hiroko Seki ◽  
Keiko Nishikawa ◽  
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Author(s):  
Christoph Wiedemann ◽  
David Fushman ◽  
Frank Bordusa

Ionic liquids (ILs) have gained a lot of attention as alternative solvents in many fields of science in the last two decades. It is known that the type of anion...


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