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Katsyuba SA, Grimme S. Structure and intermolecular interactions in ionic liquid 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium bromide and its aqueous solutions investigated by vibrational spectroscopy and quantum chemical computations. J Comput Chem 2024. [PMID: 39139057 DOI: 10.1002/jcc.27472] [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: 04/23/2024] [Revised: 06/10/2024] [Accepted: 07/13/2024] [Indexed: 08/15/2024]
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The recently developed efficient protocol to explicit quantum mechanical modeling of structure and IR spectra of liquids and solutions (S. A. Katsyuba, S. Spicher, T. P. Gerasimova, S. Grimme, J. Phys. Chem. B 2020, 124, 6664) is applied to ionic liquid (IL) 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium bromide (EmimBr), its C2-deuterated analog [Emim-d]Br and its aqueous solutions. It is shown that the solvation strongly modifies frequencies and IR intensities of the CH/CD stretching vibrations (νCH/νCD) of the imidazolium ring. The main vibrational spectroscopic features of the neat IL are reproduced by the simulations for a cluster (EmimBr)9, in which all three imidazolium CH moieties of the solvated cation form short contacts with three Br- anions, and another two Br- anions are located on top and bottom of imidazolium ring. Cluster models of aqueous solutions reproduce the experimental vibrational frequencies of actual solutions, provided that the Br- anion of solvated contact ion pair (CIP) is situated on top of imidazolium ring, and CH/CD moieties of the latter participate in short contacts with surrounding water molecules. Both structural and spectroscopic analysis allow to interpret the short contacts CH/CD⋯Br- and CH/CD⋯OH2 as hydrogen bonds of approximately equal strength. Enthalpies of bonding of these liquid-state H-bonds, estimated with the use of empirical correlations, amount to ca. 1.4 kcal⋅mol-1, while the analogous estimates obtained for the gas-phase charged species [Emim]2Br+ increase to 5.6 kcal⋅mol-1. It is shown that formation of solvent-shared ion pair (SIP) in aqueous solution, where the counterions of IL are separated by two water molecules H-bonded to a Br- anion, produces frequency shifts ΔνCH/CD, strongly different from the case of CIP formation. This difference can be used for IR/Raman spectroscopic differentiation of the type of solvated ion pairs of EmimBr or other related ILs.
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- Sergey A Katsyuba
- Arbuzov Institute of Organic and Physical Chemistry, FRC Kazan Scientific Centre of RAS, Kazan, Russia
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- Mulliken Center for Theoretical Chemistry, Clausius Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie der Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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Tran L, Rush K, Marzette J, Edmonds-Andrews G, Bennett T, Abdulahad A, Riley KE, Dutta S. Striking temperature-dependent molecular reorganization at the C-2 position of [EMIM][BF4]. Chem Phys Lett 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2021.138956] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Zeng HJ, Khuu T, Chambreau SD, Boatz JA, Vaghjiani GL, Johnson MA. Ionic Liquid Clusters Generated from Electrospray Thrusters: Cold Ion Spectroscopic Signatures of Size-Dependent Acid-Base Interactions. J Phys Chem A 2020; 124:10507-10516. [PMID: 33284621 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.0c07595] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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We determine the intramolecular distortions at play in the 2-hydroxyethylhydrazinium nitrate (HEHN) ionic liquid (IL) propellant, which presents the interesting case that the HEH+ cation has multiple sites (i.e., hydroxy, primary amine, and secondary ammonium groups) available for H-bonding with the nitrate anion. These interactions are quantified by analyzing the vibrational band patterns displayed by cold cationic clusters, (HEH+)n(NO3-)n-1, n = 2-6, which are obtained using IR photodissociation of the cryogenically cooled, mass-selected ions. The strong interaction involving partial proton transfer of the acidic N-H proton in HEH+ cation to the nitrate anion is strongly enhanced in the ternary n = 2 cluster but is suppressed with increasing cluster size. The cluster spectra recover the bands displayed by the bulk liquid by n = 5, thus establishing the minimum domain required to capture this aspect of macroscopic behavior.
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- Helen J Zeng
- Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
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- Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
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- Jacobs Technology, Inc., Air Force Research Laboratory, AFRL/RQRP, Edwards Air Force Base, California 93524, United States
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- Propellants Branch, Rocket Propulsion Division, Aerospace Systems Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, AFRL/RQRP, Edwards Air Force Base, California 93524, United States
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- In-Space Propulsion Branch, Rocket Propulsion Division, Aerospace Systems Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, AFRL/RQRP, Edwards Air Force Base, California 93524, United States
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- Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
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Zeng HJ, Menges FS, Niemann T, Strate A, Ludwig R, Johnson MA. Chain Length Dependence of Hydrogen Bond Linkages between Cationic Constituents in Hydroxy-Functionalized Ionic Liquids: Tracking Bulk Behavior to the Molecular Level with Cold Cluster Ion Spectroscopy. J Phys Chem Lett 2020; 11:683-688. [PMID: 31899639 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b03359] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Hydroxy functionalization of cations in ionic liquids (ILs) can lead to formation of contacts between their OH groups [so-called (c-c) interactions]. One class of these linkages involves cooperatively enhanced hydrogen bonds to anionic partners that are sufficiently strong to overcome the repulsion between two positively charged centers. Herein, we clarify how the propensity for the formation of (c-c) contacts depends on the alkyl chain length between two cationic rings and their OH groups by analyzing the temperature-dependent IR spectra of bulk ILs as well as the vibrational predissociation spectra of ∼35 K complexes comprised of two cations and one anion. This study compares the behavior of two cationic derivatives with ethyl and propyl chains complexed with two different anions: bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide and tetrafluoroborate. Only the bulk ILs with the longer chain propyl derivative [HPMPip+ = 1-(3-hydroxypropyl)-1-methylpiperidinium] display (c-c) interactions. Molecular-level aspects of this docking arrangement are revealed by analyzing the OH stretching fundamentals displayed by the ternary complexes.
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- Helen J Zeng
- Sterling Chemistry Laboratory , Yale University , New Haven , Connecticut 06520 , United States
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- Sterling Chemistry Laboratory , Yale University , New Haven , Connecticut 06520 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , University of Rostock , 18059 Rostock , Germany
- Department Life, Light & Matter , University of Rostock , Albert-Einstein-Strasse 25 , 18059 Rostock , Germany
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- Department of Chemistry , University of Rostock , 18059 Rostock , Germany
- Department Life, Light & Matter , University of Rostock , Albert-Einstein-Strasse 25 , 18059 Rostock , Germany
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- Department of Chemistry , University of Rostock , 18059 Rostock , Germany
- Department Life, Light & Matter , University of Rostock , Albert-Einstein-Strasse 25 , 18059 Rostock , Germany
- Leibniz-Institut für Katalyse e.V. , Albert-Einstein-Strasse 29a , 18059 Rostock , Germany
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- Sterling Chemistry Laboratory , Yale University , New Haven , Connecticut 06520 , United States
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Zeng HJ, Menges FS, Johnson MA. Comment on “C–D Vibration at C2 Position of Imidazolium Cation as a Probe of the Ionic Liquid Microenvironment”. J Phys Chem A 2019; 124:755-756. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.9b10728] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Helen J. Zeng
- Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
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- Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
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- Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
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Zeng HJ, Johnson MA, Ramdihal JD, Sumner RA, Rodriguez C, Lall-Ramnarine SI, Wishart JF. Spectroscopic Assessment of Intra- and Intermolecular Hydrogen Bonding in Ether-Functionalized Imidazolium Ionic Liquids. J Phys Chem A 2019; 123:8370-8376. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.9b04345] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Helen J. Zeng
- Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
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- Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
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- Chemistry Department, Queensborough Community College of the City University of New York, Bayside, New York 11364, United States
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- Chemistry Department, Queensborough Community College of the City University of New York, Bayside, New York 11364, United States
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- Chemistry Department, Queensborough Community College of the City University of New York, Bayside, New York 11364, United States
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- Chemistry Department, Queensborough Community College of the City University of New York, Bayside, New York 11364, United States
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- Chemistry Division, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, United States
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Menges FS, Zeng HJ, Kelleher PJ, Gorlova O, Johnson MA, Niemann T, Strate A, Ludwig R. Structural Motifs in Cold Ternary Ion Complexes of Hydroxyl-Functionalized Ionic Liquids: Isolating the Role of Cation-Cation Interactions. J Phys Chem Lett 2018; 9:2979-2984. [PMID: 29750531 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b01130] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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We address the competition between intermolecular forces underlying the recent observation that ionic liquids (ILs) with a hydroxyl-functionalized cation can form domains with attractive interactions between the nominally repulsive positively charged constituents. Here we show that this behavior is present even in the isolated ternary (HEMIm+)2NTf2- complex (HEMIm+ = 1-(2-hydroxyethyl)-3-methylimidazolium) cooled to about 35 K in a photodissociation mass spectrometer. Of the three isomers isolated by double resonance techniques, one is identified to exhibit direct contact between the cations. This linkage involves a cooperative H-bond wherein the OH group on one cation binds to the OH group on the other, which then attaches to the basic N atom of the anion. Formation of this motif comes at the expense of the usually dominant interaction of the acidic C(2)H group on the Im ring with molecular anions, as evidenced by isomer-dependent shifts in the C(2)H vibrational fundamentals.
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- Fabian S Menges
- Sterling Chemistry Laboratory , Yale University , New Haven , Connecticut 06520 , United States
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- Sterling Chemistry Laboratory , Yale University , New Haven , Connecticut 06520 , United States
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- Sterling Chemistry Laboratory , Yale University , New Haven , Connecticut 06520 , United States
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- Sterling Chemistry Laboratory , Yale University , New Haven , Connecticut 06520 , United States
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- Sterling Chemistry Laboratory , Yale University , New Haven , Connecticut 06520 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , University of Rostock , 18059 Rostock , Germany
- Leibniz-Institut für Katalyse e.V. , Albert-Einstein-Strasse 29a , 18059 Rostock , Germany
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- Department of Chemistry , University of Rostock , 18059 Rostock , Germany
- Leibniz-Institut für Katalyse e.V. , Albert-Einstein-Strasse 29a , 18059 Rostock , Germany
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- Department of Chemistry , University of Rostock , 18059 Rostock , Germany
- Leibniz-Institut für Katalyse e.V. , Albert-Einstein-Strasse 29a , 18059 Rostock , Germany
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