Tetrahalidometallate(II) Ionic Liquids with More than One Metal: The Effect of Bromide versus Chloride |
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| Authors: | Christian Balischewski Dr. Biswajit Bhattacharyya Dr. Eric Sperlich Dr. Christina Günter Alkit Beqiraj Prof. Dr. Tillmann Klamroth Dr. Karsten Behrens Stefan Mies Alexandra Kelling Susanne Lubahn Lea Holtzheimer Anne Nitschke Prof. Dr. Andreas Taubert |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Institute of Chemistry, University of Potsdam, 14476 Potsdam, Germany;2. Institute of Geosciences, University of Potsdam, 14476 Potsdam, Germany |
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| Abstract: | Fifteen N-butylpyridinium salts – five monometallic [C4Py]2[MBr4] and ten bimetallic [C4Py]2[M0.5aM0.5bBr4] (M=Co, Cu, Mn, Ni, Zn) – were synthesized, and their structures and thermal and electrochemical properties were studied. All the compounds are ionic liquids (ILs) with melting points between 64 and 101 °C. Powder and single-crystal X-ray diffraction show that all ILs are isostructural. The electrochemical stability windows of the ILs are between 2 and 3 V. The conductivities at room temperature are between 10−5 and 10−6 S cm−1. At elevated temperatures, the conductivities reach up to 10−4 S cm−1 at 70 °C. The structures and properties of the current bromide-based ILs were also compared with those of previous examples using chloride ligands, which illustrated differences and similarities between the two groups of ILs. |
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| Keywords: | electrochemistry ionic liquids metal-containing ionic liquids N-butylpyridinium bromide tetrahalidometallates |
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