28098-03-5Relevant academic research and scientific papers
The hydrophilic ionic liquid at room temperature and its use
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a novel ionic liquid that is liquid at a room temperature and is hydrophilic, particularly water-soluble, and use thereof.SOLUTION: This invention provides a hydrophilic room-temperature ionic liquid including a cation and an anion, the cation being a quaternary ammonium cation of the formula (I), and the anion being a carboxylate anion, where R represents a 1-5C straight-chain or branched-chain alkylene group, and n represents an integer of 1-3.
Phase Behavior and Physical Properties of New Biobased Ionic Liquid Crystals
Toledo Hijo, Ariel A. C.,Maximo, Guilherme J.,Costa, Mariana C.,Cunha, Rosiane L.,Pereira, Jorge F. B.,Kurnia, Kiki A.,Batista, Eduardo A. C.,Meirelles, Antonio J. A.
, p. 3177 - 3189 (2017/06/07)
Protic ionic liquids (PILs) have emerged as promising compounds and attracted the interest of the industry and the academy community, due to their easy preparation and unique properties. In the context of green chemistry, the use of biocompounds, such as fatty acids, for their synthesis could disclose a possible alternative way to produce ILs with a low or nontoxic effect and, consequently, expanding their applicability in biobased processes or in the development of bioproducts. This work addressed efforts to a better comprehension of the complex solid-[liquid crystal]-liquid thermodynamic equilibrium of 20 new PILs synthesized by using fatty acids commonly found in vegetable oils, as well as their rheological profile and self-assembling ability. The work revealed that their phase equilibrium and physical properties are significantly impacted by the structure of the ions used for their synthesis. The use of unsaturated fatty acids and bis(2-hydroxyethyl)ammonium for the synthesis of these biobased ILs led to a drastic decreasing of their melting temperatures. Also, the longest alkyl chain fatty acids promoted higher self-assembling and more stable mesophases. Besides their sustainable appeal, the marked high viscosity, non-Newtonian profile, and very low critical micellar concentration values of the PIL crystals here disclosed make them interesting renewable compounds with potential applications as emulsifiers, stabilizers, thickeners, or biolubricants.
Protic ionic liquids (PILs) nanostructure and physicochemical properties: Development of high-throughput methodology for PIL creation and property screens
Greaves, Tamar L.,Ha, Krystal,Muir, Benjamin W.,Howard, Shaun C.,Weerawardena, Asoka,Kirby, Nigel,Drummond, Calum J.
, p. 2357 - 2365 (2015/02/19)
A high-throughput approach was developed in order to prepare and dry a series of protic ionic liquids (PILs) from 48 Bronsted acid-base combinations. Many combinations comprised an alkyl carboxylic acid paired with an alkyl amine. Visual screens were developed to identify which acid-base combinations formed PILs, and of those, which PILs were likely to have high surface tensions, low viscosities, and low melting points. The surface tension screen was validated through pendant drop surface tension measurements. Karl Fischer coulometric titration was used to obtain the water contents, and it was noted that there is a considerable difference in the drying rate throughout this series of PILs. It was observed that an octyl chain present on either the cation or anion was detrimental to the formation of a PIL with a low melting point, and instead increased the likelihood of a gel or solid forming. The nanostructure of the PILs was determined, using synchrotron small and wide angle X-ray scattering (SAXS/WAXS), to consist of polar and non-polar domains, with the alkyl chains on the cation and anion intercalating. The results indicate that both the alkyl chain on the cation and/or anion contribute to the correlation distance, for the intermediate range order, with the expectation that there is charge alternation of the ions in the polar region. The maximum correlation distance was observed when there was an alkyl chain present on only one ion. This correlation distance could be significantly reduced by varying the alkyl chain length present on the other ion, which was attributed to increased disorder and interdigitation of chains, and to toe-to-toe alignment of the chains. To the best of our knowledge this is the first PIL report into the effect of having an alkyl chain present on both the cation and the anion. This journal is
