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Shimizu K, de Freitas AA, Allred JT, Burba CM. A Computational and Spectroscopic Analysis of Solvate Ionic Liquids Containing Anions with Long and Short Perfluorinated Alkyl Chains. Molecules 2024; 29:2071. [PMID: 38731564 PMCID: PMC11085471 DOI: 10.3390/molecules29092071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2024] [Revised: 04/22/2024] [Accepted: 04/25/2024] [Indexed: 05/13/2024] Open
Abstract
Anion-driven, nanoscale polar-apolar structural organization is investigated in a solvate ionic liquid (SIL) setting by comparing sulfonate-based anions with long and short perfluorinated alkyl chains. Representative SILs are created from 1,2-bis(2-methoxyethoxy)ethane ("triglyme" or "G3"), lithium nonafluoro-1-butanesulfonate, and lithium trifluoromethanesulfonate. Molecular dynamics simulations, density functional theory computations, and vibrational spectroscopy provide insight into the overall liquid structure, cation-solvent interactions, and cation-anion association. Significant competition between G3 and anions for cation-binding sites characterizes the G3-LiC4F9SO3 mixtures. Only 50% of coordinating G3 molecules form tetradentate complexes with Li+ in [(G3)1Li][C4F9SO3]. Moreover, the SIL is characterized by extensive amounts of ion pairing. Based on these observations, [(G3)1Li][C4F9SO3] is classified as a "poor" SIL, similar to the analogous [(G3)1Li][CF3SO3] system. Even though the comparable basicity of the CF3SO3- and C4F9SO3- anions leads to similar SIL classifications, the hydrophobic fluorobutyl groups support extensive apolar domain formation. These apolar moieties permeate throughout [(G3)1Li][C4F9SO3] and persist even at relatively low dilution ratios of [(G3)10Li][C4F9SO3]. By way of comparison, the CF3 group is far too short to sustain polar-apolar segregation. This demonstrates how chemically modifying the anions to include hydrophobic groups can impart unique nanoscale organization to a SIL. Moreover, tuning these nano-segregated fluorinated domains could, in principle, control the presence of dimensionally ordered states in these mixtures without changing the coordination of the lithium ions.
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- Karina Shimizu
- Centro de Química Estrutural, Institute of Molecular Sciences, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal;
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- Centro de Química Estrutural, Institute of Molecular Sciences, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal;
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- Department of Natural Sciences, Northeastern State University, 611 N Grand Ave., Tahlequah, OK 74464, USA;
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- Department of Natural Sciences, Northeastern State University, 611 N Grand Ave., Tahlequah, OK 74464, USA;
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Stephens NM, Masching HP, Walid MKI, Petrich JW, Anderson JL, Smith EA. Temperature-Dependent Constrained Diffusion of Micro-Confined Alkylimidazolium Chloride Ionic Liquids. J Phys Chem B 2022; 126:4324-4333. [PMID: 35649257 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c01588] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Abstract
Alkylimidazolium chloride ionic liquids (ILs) have many uses in a variety of separation systems, including micro-confined separation systems. To understand the separation mechanism in these systems, the diffusion properties of analytes in ILs under relevant operating conditions, including micro-confinement dimension and temperature, should be known. For example, separation efficiencies for various IL-based microextraction techniques are dependent on the sample volume and temperature. Temperature-dependent (20-100 °C) fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) was utilized to determine the diffusion properties of a zwitterionic, hydrophilic dye, ATTO 647, in alkylimidazolium chloride ILs in micro-confined geometries. These micro-confined geometries were generated by sandwiching the IL between glass substrates that were separated by ∼1 to 100 μm. From the measured temperature-dependent FRAP data, we note alkyl chain length-, thickness-, and temperature-dependent diffusion coefficients, with values ranging from 0.021 to 46 μm2/s. Deviations from Brownian diffusion are observed at lower temperatures and increasingly less so at elevated temperatures; the differences are attributed to alterations in intermolecular interactions that reduce temperature-dependent nanoscale structural heterogeneities. The temperature- and thickness-dependent data provide a useful foundation for efficient design of micro-confined IL separation systems.
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- Nicole M Stephens
- Ames Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, Ames, Iowa 50011-3111, United States
- Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011-3111, United States
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- Ames Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, Ames, Iowa 50011-3111, United States
- Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011-3111, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011-3111, United States
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- Ames Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, Ames, Iowa 50011-3111, United States
- Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011-3111, United States
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- Ames Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, Ames, Iowa 50011-3111, United States
- Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011-3111, United States
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- Ames Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, Ames, Iowa 50011-3111, United States
- Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011-3111, United States
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Kodis G, Ertem MZ, Newton MD, Matyushov DV. Reorganization Energy of Electron Transfer in Ionic Liquids. J Phys Chem Lett 2022; 13:3297-3303. [PMID: 35389644 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c00733] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
Abstract
Bandshape analysis of charge-transfer optical bands in room-temperature ionic liquids (ILs) was performed to extract the reorganization energy of electron transfer. Remarkably, the reorganization energies in ILs are close to those in cyclohexane. This result runs against common wisdom in the field since conducting ILs, which are characterized by an infinite static dielectric constant, and nonpolar cyclohexane fall to the opposite ends of the polarity scale based on their dielectric constants. Theoretical calculations employing structure factors of ILs from molecular dynamics simulations support the low values of the reorganization energy. Standard dielectric arguments do not apply to solvation in ILs, and nonergodic reorganization energies are required for a quantitative analysis.
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- Gerdenis Kodis
- Department of Physics and School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University, PO Box 871504, Tempe, Arizona 85287-1504, United States
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- Chemistry Division, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, United States
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- Chemistry Division, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, United States
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- Department of Physics and School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University, PO Box 871504, Tempe, Arizona 85287-1504, United States
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Sharma S, Ivanov AS, Margulis CJ. A Brief Guide to the Structure of High-Temperature Molten Salts and Key Aspects Making Them Different from Their Low-Temperature Relatives, the Ionic Liquids. J Phys Chem B 2021; 125:6359-6372. [PMID: 34048657 PMCID: PMC8279547 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c01065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2021] [Revised: 04/08/2021] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
Abstract
High-temperature molten salt research is undergoing somewhat of a renaissance these days due to the apparent advantage of these systems in areas related to clean and sustainable energy harvesting and transfer. In many ways, this is a mature field with decades if not already a century of outstanding work devoted to it. Yet, much of this work was done with pioneering experimental and computational setups that lack the current day capabilities of synchrotrons and high-performance-computing systems resulting in deeply entrenched results in the literature that when carefully inspected may require revision. Yet, in other cases, access to isotopically substituted ions make those pioneering studies very unique and prohibitively expensive to carry out nowadays. There are many review articles on molten salts, some of them cited in this perspective, that are simply outstanding and we dare not try to outdo those. Instead, having worked for almost a couple of decades already on their low-temperature relatives, the ionic liquids, this is the perspective article that some of the authors would have wanted to read when embarking on their research journey on high-temperature molten salts. We hope that this will serve as a simple guide to those expanding from research on ionic liquids to molten salts and vice versa, particularly, when looking into their bulk structural features. The article does not aim at being comprehensive but instead focuses on selected topics such as short- and intermediate-range order, the constraints on force field requirements, and other details that make the high- and low-temperature ionic melts in some ways similar but in others diametrically opposite.
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- Shobha Sharma
- Department
of Chemistry, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, United States
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- Chemical
Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1 Bethel Valley Road, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, United States
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Lundin F, Hansen HW, Adrjanowicz K, Frick B, Rauber D, Hempelmann R, Shebanova O, Niss K, Matic A. Pressure and Temperature Dependence of Local Structure and Dynamics in an Ionic Liquid. J Phys Chem B 2021; 125:2719-2728. [PMID: 33656344 PMCID: PMC8034775 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c00147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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A detailed understanding
of the local dynamics in ionic liquids
remains an important aspect in the design of new ionic liquids as
advanced functional fluids. Here, we use small-angle X-ray scattering
and quasi-elastic neutron spectroscopy to investigate the local structure
and dynamics in a model ionic liquid as a function of temperature
and pressure, with a particular focus on state points (P,T) where the macroscopic dynamics, i.e., conductivity,
is the same. Our results suggest that the initial step of ion transport
is a confined diffusion process, on the nanosecond timescale, where
the motion is restricted by a cage of nearest neighbors. This process
is invariant considering timescale, geometry, and the participation
ratio, at state points of constant conductivity, i.e., state points
of isoconductivity. The connection to the nearest-neighbor structure
is underlined by the invariance of the peak in the structure factor
corresponding to nearest-neighbor correlations. At shorter timescales,
picoseconds, two localized relaxation processes of the cation can
be observed, which are not directly linked to ion transport. However,
these processes also show invariance at isoconductivity. This points
to that the overall energy landscape in ionic liquids responds in
the same way to density changes and is mainly governed by the nearest-neighbor
interactions.
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- Filippa Lundin
- Department of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, SE-41296 Göteborg, Sweden
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- Department of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, SE-41296 Göteborg, Sweden.,Glass and Time, IMFUFA, Department of Science and Environment, Roskilde University, P.O. Box 260, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark.,Institut Laue-Langevin, 71 Avenue des Martyrs, CS 20156, 38042 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
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- Insitute of Physics, University of Silesia, 75 Pulku Piechoty 1, 41-500 Chorzow, Poland
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- Institut Laue-Langevin, 71 Avenue des Martyrs, CS 20156, 38042 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
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- Department of Chemistry, Saarland University, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Saarland University, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
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- Glass and Time, IMFUFA, Department of Science and Environment, Roskilde University, P.O. Box 260, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark
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- Department of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, SE-41296 Göteborg, Sweden
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Koverga V, Maity N, Miannay FA, Kalugin ON, Juhasz A, Świątek A, Polok K, Takamuku T, Jedlovszky P, Idrissi A. Voronoi Polyhedra as a Tool for the Characterization of Inhomogeneous Distribution in 1-Butyl-3-methylimidazolium Cation-Based Ionic Liquids. J Phys Chem B 2020; 124:10419-10434. [PMID: 33151074 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c07398] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Abstract
The inhomogeneity distribution in four imidazolium-based ionic liquids (ILs) containing the 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium (C4mim) cation, coupled with tetrafluoroborate (BF4), hexafluorophosphate (PF6), bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)amide (TFSA), and trifluoromethanesulfonate (TfO) anions, was characterized using Voronoi polyhedra. For this purpose, molecular dynamic simulations have been performed on the isothermal-isobaric (NpT) ensemble. We checked the ability of the potential models to reproduce the experimental density, heat of vaporization, and transport properties (diffusion and viscosity) of these ionic liquids. The inhomogeneity distribution of ions around the ring, methyl, and butyl chain terminal hydrogen atoms of the C4mim cation was investigated by means of Voronoi polyhedra analysis. For this purpose, the position of the C4mim cation was described successively by the ring, methyl, and butyl chain terminal hydrogen atoms, while that of the anions was described by their F or O atom. We calculated the Voronoi polyhedra distributions of the volume, the density, and the asphericity parameters as well as that of the radius of the spherical intermolecular voids. We carried out the analysis in two steps. In the first step, both ions were taken into account. The calculated distributions gave information on the neighboring ions around a reference one. In the second step, to distinguish between like and oppositely charged ions and then to get information on the inhomogeneity distribution of the like ions, we repeated the same calculations on the same sample configurations and removed one of the ions and considered only the other one. Detailed analysis of these distributions has revealed that the ring hydrogen atoms are mainly solvated by the anions, while the methyl and butyl terminal H atoms are surrounded by like atoms. The extent of this inhomogeneity was assessed by calculating the cluster size distribution that shows that the dimers are the most abundant ones.
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- Volodymyr Koverga
- Laboratoire de Spectrochimie Infrarouge et Raman, UMR CNRS A8516, Université de Lille, Science et Technologies, 59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France.,Institut des Sciences Analytiques et de Physico-Chimie pour l'Environnement et les Matériaux (IPREM), Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, Technopôle Helioparc, 2, Avenue Pierre Angot, 64053 Pau Cedex 9, Nouvelle Aquitaine, France
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- Laboratoire de Spectrochimie Infrarouge et Raman, UMR CNRS A8516, Université de Lille, Science et Technologies, 59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France
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- Laboratoire de Spectrochimie Infrarouge et Raman, UMR CNRS A8516, Université de Lille, Science et Technologies, 59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France
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- Department of Inorganic Chemistry, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Svoboda Square 4, Kharkiv 61022, Ukraine
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- Laboratory of Nanochemistry, Department of Biophysics Radiation Biology, Semmelweis University, Nagyvárad tér 4, Budapest 1089, Hungary
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- Laboratory of Spectroscopy and Intermolecular Interactions, Department of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, ul. Żwirki i Wigury 101, 02-089 Warsaw, Poland
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- Laboratory of Spectroscopy and Intermolecular Interactions, Department of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, ul. Żwirki i Wigury 101, 02-089 Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Saga University, Honjo-machi, Saga 840-8502, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Eszterházy Károly University, Leányka utca 6, H-3300 Eger, Hungary
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- Laboratoire de Spectrochimie Infrarouge et Raman, UMR CNRS A8516, Université de Lille, Science et Technologies, 59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France
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Ghorai PK, Matyushov DV. Equilibrium Solvation, Electron-Transfer Reactions, and Stokes-Shift Dynamics in Ionic Liquids. J Phys Chem B 2020; 124:3754-3769. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c01773] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Pradip Kr. Ghorai
- Department of Chemical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, Mohanpur 741246, India
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- Department of Physics and School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University, PO Box 871504, Tempe, Arizona 85287, United States
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Reddy TDN, Mallik BS. Structure and Conformational Response of Pure and Lithium-Doped Ionic Liquids to Pressure Alterations from Molecular Dynamics Simulations. J Phys Chem B 2020; 124:2436-2449. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.9b10530] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Th. Dhileep N. Reddy
- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Kandi-502285, Sangareddy, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Kandi-502285, Sangareddy, India
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