Journal
JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR LIQUIDS
Volume 187, Issue -, Pages 252-259Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2013.08.002
Keywords
Room temperature ionic liquids; Dicianamide; Morpholinium; Mesoscopic organization
Funding
- FIRB-Futuro in Ricerca [RBFR086BOQ]
- PRIN [2009WHPHRH]
- Fondazione CARIPI
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A series of new room temperature ionic liquids based on N-alkyl-N-methylmorpholinium cations (the alkyl chain ranging from ethyl to nonyl) and a hydrophilic anion (dicyanamide), a mostly unexplored class of room temperature ionic liquids (RTILs), has been synthesized and characterized. Selected physico-chemical properties (density, viscosity and ionic conductivity) have been measured and the salts' propensity to organize into ionic clusters has been explored. The inspection of their Walden plots and electrospray ionization spectra strongly prompts for the occurrence of clustering phenomena, especially for salts bearing long alkyl chains. This structural organization has been confirmed using X-ray scattering techniques and the existence of a high degree of intermediate range order has been detected, as fingerprinted by distinct diffraction features at low Q. These evidences are rationalized in terms of a structural model where, similarly to other RTILs, the alkyl chains tend to segregate from the charged moieties. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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