The Hildebrand solubility parameters, cohesive energy densities and internal energies of 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium-based room temperature ionic liquids

The Hildebrand solubility parameters, cohesive energy densities and internal energies of 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium-based room temperature ionic liquids were determined by the intrinsic viscosity method and their dependencies on the length of the alkyl group analyzed.     

Ion-exchange as a mode of cation transfer into room-temperature ionic liquids containing crown ethers: implications for the 'greenness' of ionic liquids as diluents in liquid-liquid extraction

The transfer of strontium ion from acidic nitrate media into a series of 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium-based room-temperature ionic liquids containing dicyclohexano-18-crown-6 is shown to proceed via cation-exchange, in contrast to conventional solvents such as alkan-1-ols, in which extraction of a strontium nitrato-crown ether complex is observed.     

Surface tension measurements of imidazolium-based ionic liquids at liquid–vapor equilibrium

A series of high quality 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium-based ionic liquids are synthesized and used for studying their surface tension. The capillary rise method is used for measuring the surface tension of I⁻, Cl⁻, PF₆⁻, and BF₄⁻ salts in the temperature range 298–393 K. The capillary apparatus is evacuated and sealed under vacuum. The experimental results show that surface tension of these compounds depend systematically on temperature.     

Application of 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium-based ionic liquids as background electrolyte in capillary zone electrophoresis for the simultaneous determination of five anthraquinones in Rhubarb

A capillary zone electrophoresis method using only 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium-based ionic liquids as background electrolyte for the simultaneous determination of five anthraquinone derivatives including aloe-emodin, emodin, chrysophanol, physcion and rhein in Rhubarb species was described. Ion association constants, K_ass, between anthraquinone anions and imidazolium cations were determined by analyzing the electrophoretic mobility change of anthraquinone anions using a non-linear least-squares method and factors contributing to ion associability were systematically clarified. For method optimization, several parameters such as ionic liquids concentration, background electrolyte pH and applied voltage, on the separation were evaluated and the optimum conditions were obtained as follows: 90 mM 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate (pH 11.0) with an applied voltage of 20 kV. Under these conditions, the method has been successfully applied to the determination of anthraquinones in extracts of two kinds of Rhubarb plants (R. palmatum and R. hotaoense) within 12 min. The method proposed herein was shown to be much simpler than the previously reported methods.     

共价有机框架材料的离子化改性及其催化合成环碳酸酯的性能研究（英文）

共价有机框架(COFs)材料是继金属-有机框架材料之后,在拓扑学基础上发展起来的又一类多孔材料.这类材料是由轻质元素(C,H,O,N,B,Si等)通过可逆共价键连接而成的结晶性有机多孔聚合物,具有比表面积大、骨架密度低、孔道结构规整、可人为设计以及表面易修饰改性等特点,自2005年首次报道以来就引起了人们的广泛关注.经过十多年的发展,COFs材料已经被广泛用于气体吸附/分离、光电、能量存储、非均相催化等研究领域.由于材料的多孔性以及相对稳定的特点,近年来COFs材料作为催化剂或催化剂载体用于多相催化反应已经成为该领域的一个研究热点.但是到目前为止,COFs材料的离子化改性用于异相催化相关研究还相对较少.本文选择二维骨架中含有羟基基团的H2P-DHPhCOF作为载体,通过两步接枝反应成功地将咪唑型离子液体引入到COF材料的孔道中;采用红外光谱、核磁共振、粉末X射线衍射、热失重分析等方法详细地表征了COF材料在后修饰过程中的变化.研究发现,1,4-二溴丁烷与N-甲基咪唑基团的引入占据了部分孔道,导致框架材料的孔径和孔容减小.同时,我们还将该改性后的离子型COF材料在DMSO/盐酸溶液中消解,利用核磁共振波谱计算了离子化程度.实验结果表明,N-甲基咪唑的接枝率约为4.9wt%.在既定的反应条件下,将该离子化的COF材料作为多相催化剂用于CO2和环氧化合物之间的环加成反应.以环氧氯丙烷作为测试底物,发现该离子型催化剂的催化性能与H2P-DHPhCOF相比有大副度提高,转化率达到了91%(120°C,24 h,CO2压力位1.0 MPa).在相同的条件下,该催化剂还对其他的环氧化合物具有一定的催化效果,其中环氧丙烷的转化率高达95%,且目标产物碳酸丙烯酯的选择性为100%.然而,对于大分子的环氧化合物,转化率和产率均较低,表明催化剂具有明显的尺寸选择性.此外,我们还以环氧氯丙烷的环加成反应为例考察了催化剂的循环稳定性,经过连续的5次循环,催化剂的催化活性得到了有效保持.我们的研究表明COF材料作为异相催化剂用于多相催化具有潜在的应用前景.而且,由于离子型多孔材料具有可交换的性质,我们可以通过将不同功能的反离子交换到孔道中,从而得到具有不同功能特性的多孔材料.因此,离子化共价有机框架材料是一类集多孔、高比表面积、可人为设计等性质于一体的新型多孔材料,有望应用于更加广泛的研究领域.     

Dynamically coating the capillary with 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium-based ionic liquids for separation of basic proteins by capillary electrophoresis

Ionic substances with melting points close to room temperature are referred to as ionic liquids. Because ionic liquids are environmentally benign and are good solvents for a wide range of both organic and inorganic materials, interest for their potential uses in different chemical processes is increasing. In this paper, a capillary electrophoretic method for the analysis of basic proteins including lysozyme, cytochrome c, trypsinoge, and α-chymotyypsinogen A is reported. The method, in which 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium-based ionic liquids are used as the running electrolytes, leads to a surface charge reversal on the capillary wall. The effects of the alkyl group, imidazolium counterion, and the concentration of the ionic liquids were discussed. The optimum buffer system was a 90 mM 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate (1E-3MI-TFB) solution. The applied voltage was −15 kV and detection was performed by monitoring absorbance at 240 nm. Baseline separation, high efficiencies, and symmetrical peaks of four proteins were obtained. The R.S.D. values of migration times and peak areas were <0.68 and <3.0%, respectively. The separation mechanism seems to involve association between the imidazolium cations and the proteins.     

Synthesis and characterization of ionic liquids incorporating the nitrile functionality

A series of imidazolium salts with the nitrile functional group attached to the alkyl side chain, viz. [CnCNmim][X] (where CnCNmim is the 1-alkylnitrile-3-methylimidazolium cation and Cn= (CH2)(n), n = 1-4; X = Cl, PF(6), and BF(4)) and [C3CNdmim][X] (where CnCNdmim is the 1-alkylnitrile-2,3-dimethylimidazolium cation and C(n) = (CH2)(n), n = 3; X = Cl, PF(6), and BF(4)), have been prepared and characterized using spectroscopic methods. The majority of the nitrile-functionalized imidazolium salts can be classed as ionic liquids since they melt below 100 degrees C. Four of the imidazolium salts have been characterized in the solid state using single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis to reveal an extensive series of hydrogen bonds between H atoms on the cation and the anion. The relationship between the solid-state structure and the melting point is discussed. Key physical properties (density, viscosity, and solubility in common solvents) of the low melting ionic liquid have been determined and are compared with those of the related 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium and 1-alkyl-2,3-dimethylimidazolium ionic liquids. It was envisaged that these ionic liquids could act as both solvent and ligand for catalyzed reactions, and this application is demonstrated in hydrogenation reactions, which show that retention of the catalyst in the ionic liquid during product extraction is extremely high.     

Modeling of the carbon dioxide solubility in imidazolium-based ionic liquids with the tPC-PSAFT equation of state

In this work, an equation of state (EoS) is developed to predict accurately the phase behavior of ionic liquid + CO2 systems based on the truncated perturbed chain polar statistical associating fluid theory (tPC-PSAFT) EoS. This EoS accounts explicitly for the dipolar interactions between ionic liquid molecules, the quadrupolar interactions between CO2 molecules, and the Lewis acid-base type of association between the ionic liquid and the CO2 molecules. Physically meaningful model pure-component parameters for ionic liquids are estimated based on literature data. All experimental vapor-liquid equilibrium data are correlated with a single linearly temperature-dependent binary interaction parameter. The ability of the model to describe accurately carbon dioxide solubility in various 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium-based ionic liquids with different alkyl chain lengths and different anions at pressures from 0 to 100 MPa and carbon dioxide fractions from 0 to 75 mol % is demonstrated. In all cases, good agreement with experimental data is obtained.     

UV-light induced photodegradation of bisphenol a in water: Kinetics and influencing factors

The synthesis of dimethyl carbonate (DMC) from methanol and ethylene carbonate (EC) without using any solvent was investigated in the presence of ionic liquids as catalysts. The conversion of ethylene carbonate was affected by the structure of ionic liquid. For a series of 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium ionic liquids, the one with shorter alkyl chain and the one with more nucleophilic anion showed higher reactivity. The conversion of EC also increased with CO₂ pressure and reaction temperature. Esterification of EC and methanol can be considered as a pseudo-first order reaction with respect to EC concentration. The activation energy was estimated as 50.1 kJ/mol.     

Pyrazolyl-functionalized 2-methylimidazolium-based ionic liquids and their palladium(II) complexes as recyclable catalysts

A series of pyrazolyl- and 3,5-dimethylpyrazolyl-functionalized 2-methylimidazolium-based salts have been prepared through neat reactions of 1-pyrazolylmethylene-2-methylimidazole and 1-(3,5-dimethylpyrazolylmethylene)-2-methylimidazole with alkyl or polyfluoroalkyl iodides or 1-bromohexane, followed by anion exchange with LiN(SO2CF3)2 or KPF6. Their thermal properties were determined by DSC and TGA. Most of the bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)amide salts are room temperature ionic liquids. The influence of anions and of the structural variation in the 2-methylimidazolium-based cations on the physicochemical properties is discussed. These salts reacted easily with palladium(II) chloride to generate mononuclear palladium ionic liquid complexes. The catalytic activity and recyclability of the palladium complexes in the corresponding ionic liquids were preliminarily examined using Heck, Suzuki and Sonogashira cross-coupling reactions in the absence of phosphine ligands.     

Using spectroscopic data on imidazolium cation conformations to test a molecular force field for ionic liquids

A molecular force field for the computer simulation of ionic liquids is evaluated a posteriori by confrontation against Raman spectroscopic data, published after the force field had been formulated. Specifically, the terms in the force field describing the conformational aspects of dialkylimidazolium cations, which were specifically developed for these compounds using high level ab initio calculations, are those affecting the distribution of conformers in simulated ionic liquids. Those distributions are compared with analyses of the liquid-phase Raman spectra, and the features of a series of dihedral torsions along the alkyl side chains in 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium cations in several ionic liquids are discussed.     

Surfactant properties of ionic liquids containing short alkyl chain imidazolium cations and ibuprofenate anions

Interfacial tension, electrical conductivity, NMR self-diffusion and DLS experiments have been used to investigate the self-aggregation in water of ionic liquids associating an ibuprofenate anion and 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium [C(n)MIm](+) (n = 4, 6, 8) cations. Despite the short alkyl chain on imidazolium cations (n ≤ 8), these ionic liquids exhibit particularly low Critical Aggregation Concentrations (CAC), significantly lower than their parent 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride salts. This behaviour is attributed to the formation of catanionic pairs between ibuprofenate and imidazolium.     

Thermal decomposition of 1-alkyl-3-methylpyridinium based ionic liquids

Products of thermodegradation of 1-alkyl-3-methylpyridinium halides are investigated by the method of gas chromatomass spectrometry. The main products of the reaction are 3-methylpyridine and the corresponding alkyl halide. It was supposed that thermodecomposition of pyridinium ionic liquids proceeds similar to that of imidazolium ionic liquids by dealkylation with elimination of the substituent at the nitrogen atom of the pyridinium ring via S_N2 mechanism. The presence of 5 wt % of cellulose decreases the onset temperature of thermodecomposition by 15–20°С.     

Theoretical study on cation-anion interaction and vibrational spectra of 1-allyl-3-methylimidazolium-based ionic liquids

In order to deepen the understanding of the cation-anion interaction in ionic liquids, the structures of cation, anions, and cation-anion ion-pairs of 1-allyl-3-methylimidazolium-based ionic liquids are optimized using density functional theory (DFT), and their most stable geometries are discussed. The structural parameters, hydrogen bonds and interaction energies of 1-allyl-3-methylimidazolium dicyanamide ([Amim]DCA), 1-allyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride ([Amim]Cl), 1-allyl-3-methylimidazolium formate ([Amim]FmO) and 1-allyl-3-methylimidazolium acetate ([Amim]AcO) ion pairs are studied. The vibrational frequencies of [Amim]DCA and [Amim]Cl have been calculated and scaled values have been compared with experimental FT-IR and FT-Raman spectra. The complete assignments were performed on the basis of the potential energy distribution (PED) of the vibrational modes.     

Simultaneous determination of fangchinoline and tetrandrine in Stephania tetrandra S. Moore by using 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium-based ionic liquids as the RP-HPLC mobile phase additives

A reversed phase high performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC) method for simultaneous determination of fangchinoline (FAN) and tetrandrine (TET) in Stephania tetrandra S. Moore was established by using 1-hexyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate as the mobile phase additives in this paper. Four types of 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium-based ionic liquids (ILs) were used as additives of the mobile phase to separate FAN and TET by RP-HPLC. The effects of the length of the alkyl group on the imidazolium ring and its counterion, the concentrations of IL and the pH of the mobile phase, which influenced the chromatographic behaviors of FAN and TET, were investigated in detail. The linearity, sensitivity, accuracy and repeatability of the proposed method were also investigated. The probable mechanism of the separation with ILs as the mobile phase additives was explored and discussed.     

Solid-phase extraction of room-temperature imidazolium ionic liquids from aqueous environmental samples

Owing to their favorable properties, ionic liquids have recently gained recognition as possibly environmentally benign solvents. Now among the most promising industrial chemicals, they have already been labeled green, but this appellation seems due entirely to their very low vapor pressure. This growing interest in the various applications of ionic liquids will soon result in their presence in the environment. Therefore, reliable analytical tools for the environmental analysis of ionic liquids need to be developed urgently. This paper presents a newly developed analytical procedure for the enrichment of 1-alkyl- and 1-aryl-3-methylimidazolium ionic liquids from water samples. The method is based on cation exchange solid-phase extraction followed by selective elution. Pre-concentrated samples are subjected to high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) with an advanced methodology for qualitative and quantitative analysis. The overall procedure was verified by using standard spiked samples of tap water, seawater, and freshwater.     

Reversed-phase liquid chromatographic method for the determination of selected room-temperature ionic liquid cations

The separation of selected 1-alkyl- and 1-aryl-3-methylimidazolium-based room temperature ionic liquid cations has been performed using reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography with electrospray ionization mass detection. The RP-HPLC method development started with the selection of a column taking into account especially the resolution of low molecular congeners of the selected group. Mobile phase composition was optimized for peak resolution, sensitivity and high reproducibility of retention values. The results of the method development were applied to the determination of exemplary ionic liquid species present in the medium used in cytotoxicity studies.     

Densities and refractive indices of imidazolium- and phosphonium-based ionic liquids: Effect of temperature,alkyl chain length,and anion

A systematic study of densities and refractive indices of 17 room temperature ionic liquids is presented at four different temperatures ranging from 293 K to 333 K. The ionic liquids are grouped into four families: 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)amide, [C_nmim][Ntf₂], ionic liquids (with n = 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, and 14); 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate, [C_nmim][PF₆], ionic liquids (with n = 4, 6, 8); ionic liquids based on the trihexyl(tetradecyl)phosphonium cation, [P_{6 6 6 14}], combined with the anions bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)amide, [Ntf₂], acetate, [OAc], and triflate, [OTf]; and [C₄mim]-based ionic liquids combined with the anions [OAc], [OTf], methylsulfate [MeSO₄], and tetrafluoroborate [BF₄]. The data obtained were analysed to determine the effect of (i) temperature, (ii) the alkyl chain length of the 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium cation, and (iii) the nature of the anion. Different empirical models for the calculation of the densities of the ionic liquids were tested. Molar refractions were also calculated from the volumetric and refractive index data and the values were discussed with the aim of checking their utility in obtaining insights on the intermolecular forces and behaviour in solution of the different ionic liquids.     

Use of 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium-based ionic liquids as background electrolytes in capillary electrophoresis for the analysis of inorganic anions

Separation of inorganic anions in CE is often a challenging task because the electrophoretic mobilities of inorganic anions are comparable to or even greater than the EOF mobility. In this study, we present the use of ionic liquids (ILs) as background electrolytes (BGEs) in CE of inorganic anions. The 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium-based ILs as BGEs dynamically coated the capillary wall and induced a reversed EOF. This allowed the anions to comigrate with the EOF and yielded a rapid separation. Increasing the alkyl chain length of the ILs and BGE concentration can significantly improve the separation resolution. With 40 mM 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate as BGE, good separations of five model anions (Br-, I-, NO2(-), NO3(-), and SCN-) were achieved in a range of buffer pH values. The separation efficiency was as high as 34 600-155 000, and the RSDs of the migration times were less than 0.8% (n = 5).     

Viscosity of (C2-C14) 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)amide ionic liquids in an extended temperature range

Dynamic viscosities of several members of the 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)amide, [C_nmim][NTf₂], ionic liquids family, with the cation alkyl side-chain length varying from 2 to 14 carbon atoms, have been measured in the 278.15 K to 393.15 K temperature range using two different apparatuses. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first time that such an extensive assessment of viscosity - in terms of the number of compounds of a single ionic liquid homologous series, of the broad range of temperature covered, and the use of two different experimental techniques - is reported. The use of two different instruments, using different methodologies, provides information about the uncertainties in the measurement of viscosity of ionic liquids, including its dependence on the presence of traces of water and other impurities. An extensive critical analysis of the deviations between the data measured in this work and those reported in literature has been carried out.