Expanding the polarity range of ionic liquids

✍ Scribed by Sergei V. Dzyuba; Richard A. Bartsch

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 69 KB
• Volume: 43
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(02)00858-4

✦ Synopsis

The polarity of several [X-mim]NTf 2 ionic liquids, as measured with solvatochromic dyes, Reichardt's dye and Nile Red, may be varied over a wide range by attachment of functional group-containing substituents (X) to the imidazolium cation.