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Triolo A, Lo Celso F, Fourmentin S, Russina O. Liquid Structure Scenario of the Archetypal Supramolecular Deep Eutectic Solvent: Heptakis(2,6-di- O-methyl)-β-cyclodextrin/levulinic Acid. ACS SUSTAINABLE CHEMISTRY & ENGINEERING 2023; 11:9103-9110. [PMID: 37351462 PMCID: PMC10283020 DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.3c01858] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2023] [Revised: 05/24/2023] [Indexed: 06/24/2023]
Abstract
The concept of supramolecular solvents has been recently introduced, and the extended liquid-state window accessible for mixtures of functionalized cyclodextrins (CDs) with hydrogen bond (HB) donor species, e.g., levulinic acid, led to the debut of supramolecular deep eutectic solvents (SUPRA-DES). These solvents retain CD's inclusion ability and complement it with enhanced solvation effectiveness due to an extended HB network. However, so far, these promising features were not rationalized in terms of a microscopic description, thus hindering a more complete capitalization. This is the first joint experimental and computational study on the archetypal SUPRA-DES: heptakis(2,6-di-O-methyl)-β-CD/levulinic acid (1:27). We used X-ray scattering to probe CD's aggregation level and molecular dynamics simulation to determine the nature of interactions between SUPRA-DES components. We discover that CDs are homogeneously distributed in bulk and that HB interactions, together with the electrostatic ones, play a major role in determining mutual interaction between components. However, dispersive forces act in synergy with HB to accomplish a fundamental task in hindering hydrophobic interactions between neighbor CDs and maintaining the system homogeneity. The mechanism of mutual solvation of CD and levulinic acid is fully described, providing fundamental indications on how to extend the spectrum of SUPRA-DES combinations. Overall, this study provides the key to interpreting structural organization and solvation tunability in SUPRA-DES to extend the range of sustainable applications for these new, unique solvents.
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Affiliation(s)
- Alessandro Triolo
- Laboratorio
Liquidi Ionici, Istituto Struttura della
Materia-Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (ISM-CNR), Rome 00133, Italy
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- Laboratorio
Liquidi Ionici, Istituto Struttura della
Materia-Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (ISM-CNR), Rome 00133, Italy
- Department
of Physics and Chemistry, Università
di Palermo, Palermo 90133, Italy
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- Unité
de Chimie Environnementale et Interactions sur le Vivant (UCEIV, UR
4492), Université du Littoral Côte
d’Opale (ULCO), 59140 Dunkerque, France
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- Laboratorio
Liquidi Ionici, Istituto Struttura della
Materia-Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (ISM-CNR), Rome 00133, Italy
- Department
of Chemistry, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome 00185, Italy
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de Araujo Lima e Souza G, Di Pietro ME, Castiglione F, Vanoli V, Mele A. Insights into the Effect of Lithium Doping on the Deep Eutectic Solvent Choline Chloride:Urea. MATERIALS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2022; 15:7459. [PMID: 36363050 PMCID: PMC9656420 DOI: 10.3390/ma15217459] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2022] [Revised: 10/17/2022] [Accepted: 10/21/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Choline-based deep eutectic solvents (DESs) are potential candidates to replace flammable organic solvent electrolytes in lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). The effect of the addition of a lithium salt on the structure and dynamics of the material needs to be clarified before it enters the battery. Here, the archetypical DES choline chloride:urea at 1:2 mole fraction has been added with lithium chloride at two different concentrations and the effect of the additional cation has been evaluated with respect to the non-doped system via multinuclear NMR techniques. 1H and 7Li spin-lattice relaxation times and diffusion coefficients have been measured between 298 K and 373 K and revealed a decrease in both rotational and translational mobility of the species after LiCl doping at a given temperature. Temperature dependent 35Cl linewidths reflect the viscosity increase upon LiCl addition, yet keep track of the lithium complexation. Quantitative indicators such as correlation times and activation energies give indirect insights into the intermolecular interactions of the mixtures, while lithium single-jump distance and transference number shed light into the lithium transport, being then of help in the design of future DES electrolytes.
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- Giselle de Araujo Lima e Souza
- Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering “G. Natta”, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza L. da Vinci 32, 20133 Milan, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering “G. Natta”, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza L. da Vinci 32, 20133 Milan, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering “G. Natta”, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza L. da Vinci 32, 20133 Milan, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering “G. Natta”, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza L. da Vinci 32, 20133 Milan, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering “G. Natta”, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza L. da Vinci 32, 20133 Milan, Italy
- CNR-SCITEC Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie Chimiche, Via A. Corti 12, 20133 Milan, Italy
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Shahkhatuni AA, Shahkhatuni AG, Ananikov VP, Harutyunyan AS. NMR-monitoring of H/D exchange reaction of ketones in solutions of imidazolium ionic liquids. J Mol Liq 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2022.119746] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Mero A, Guglielmero L, D'Andrea F, Pomelli CS, Guazzelli L, Koutsoumpos S, Tsonos G, Stavrakas I, Moutzouris K, Mezzetta A. Influence of the cation partner on levulinate ionic liquids properties. J Mol Liq 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2022.118850] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Damodaran K. Recent advances in NMR spectroscopy of ionic liquids. PROGRESS IN NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY 2022; 129:1-27. [PMID: 35292132 DOI: 10.1016/j.pnmrs.2021.12.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2021] [Revised: 12/17/2021] [Accepted: 12/28/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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This review presents recent developments in the application of NMR spectroscopic techniques in the study of ionic liquids. NMR has been the primary tool not only for the structural characterization of ionic liquids, but also for the study of dynamics. The presence of a host of NMR active nuclei in ionic liquids permits widespread use of multinuclear NMR experiments. Chemical shifts and multinuclear coupling constants are used routinely for the structure elucidation of ionic liquids and of products formed by their covalent interactions with other materials. Also, the availability of a multitude of NMR techniques has facilitated the study of dynamical processes in them. These include the use of NOESY to study inter-ionic interactions, pulsed-field gradient techniques for probing transport properties, and relaxation measurements to elucidate rotational dynamics. This review will focus on the application of each of these techniques to investigate ionic liquids.
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- Krishnan Damodaran
- Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, United States.
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Triolo A, Di Pietro ME, Mele A, Lo Celso F, Brehm M, Di Lisio V, Martinelli A, Chater P, Russina O. Liquid structure and dynamics in the choline acetate:urea 1:2 deep eutectic solvent. J Chem Phys 2021; 154:244501. [PMID: 34241369 DOI: 10.1063/5.0054048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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We report on the thermodynamic, structural, and dynamic properties of a recently proposed deep eutectic solvent, formed by choline acetate (ChAc) and urea (U) at the stoichiometric ratio 1:2, hereinafter indicated as ChAc:U. Although the crystalline phase melts at 36-38 °C depending on the heating rate, ChAc:U can be easily supercooled at sub-ambient conditions, thus maintaining at the liquid state, with a glass-liquid transition at about -50 °C. Synchrotron high energy x-ray scattering experiments provide the experimental data for supporting a reverse Monte Carlo analysis to extract structural information at the atomistic level. This exploration of the liquid structure of ChAc:U reveals the major role played by hydrogen bonding in determining interspecies correlations: both acetate and urea are strong hydrogen bond acceptor sites, while both choline hydroxyl and urea act as HB donors. All ChAc:U moieties are involved in mutual interactions, with acetate and urea strongly interacting through hydrogen bonding, while choline being mostly involved in van der Waals mediated interactions. Such a structural situation is mirrored by the dynamic evidences obtained by means of 1H nuclear magnetic resonance techniques, which show how urea and acetate species experience higher translational activation energy than choline, fingerprinting their stronger commitments into the extended hydrogen bonding network established in ChAc:U.
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Affiliation(s)
- Alessandro Triolo
- Laboratorio Liquidi Ionici, Istituto Struttura della Materia, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (ISM-CNR), Rome, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering "G. Natta," Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering "G. Natta," Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy
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- Laboratorio Liquidi Ionici, Istituto Struttura della Materia, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (ISM-CNR), Rome, Italy
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- Institut für Chemie, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Rome Sapienza, Rome, Italy
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- Diamond House, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Diamond Light Source, Ltd., Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE, United Kingdom
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- Laboratorio Liquidi Ionici, Istituto Struttura della Materia, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (ISM-CNR), Rome, Italy
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Marion S, Vučemilović-Alagić N, Špadina M, Radenović A, Smith AS. From Water Solutions to Ionic Liquids with Solid State Nanopores as a Perspective to Study Transport and Translocation Phenomena. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2021; 17:e2100777. [PMID: 33955694 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202100777] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2021] [Revised: 04/01/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Solid state nanopores are single-molecular devices governed by nanoscale physics with a broad potential for technological applications. However, the control of translocation speed in these systems is still limited. Ionic liquids are molten salts which are commonly used as alternate solvents enabling the regulation of the chemical and physical interactions on solid-liquid interfaces. While their combination can be challenging to the understanding of nanoscopic processes, there has been limited attempts on bringing these two together. While summarizing the state of the art and open questions in these fields, several major advances are presented with a perspective on the next steps in the investigations of ionic-liquid filled nanopores, both from a theoretical and experimental standpoint. By analogy to aqueous solutions, it is argued that ionic liquids and nanopores can be combined to provide new nanofluidic functionalities, as well as to help resolve some of the pertinent problems in understanding transport phenomena in confined ionic liquids and providing better control of the speed of translocating analytes.
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- Sanjin Marion
- Laboratory of Nanoscale Biology, Institute of Bioengineering, School of Engineering, EPFL, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Group for Computational Life Sciences, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Division of Physical Chemistry, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia
- PULS Group, Physics Department, Interdisciplinary Center for Nanostructured Films, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91058, Erlangen, Germany
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- Group for Computational Life Sciences, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Division of Physical Chemistry, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia
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- Laboratory of Nanoscale Biology, Institute of Bioengineering, School of Engineering, EPFL, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Group for Computational Life Sciences, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Division of Physical Chemistry, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia
- PULS Group, Physics Department, Interdisciplinary Center for Nanostructured Films, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91058, Erlangen, Germany
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