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RESONANCE-JOURNAL OF SCIENCE EDUCATION
Volume 26, Issue 2, Pages 241-244Publisher
SPRINGER INDIA
DOI: 10.1007/s12045-021-1122-3
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Ionic liquid; P C Râ y; P Wâ lden
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Recent investigation reveals that Sir P C Ray synthesized a room temperature ionic liquid similar to [EtNH3](+)(NG3(-)) three years before Paul Walden in 1911. Despite this, Sir P C Ray's work remained unnoticed for over a century due to unknown reasons.
[EtNH3](+)(NG3(-)) is generally considered as the first reported room temperature ionic liquid which was synthesized and characterized by Paul Walden in 1914. But the present investigation finds that [EtNH3](+)(NG3(-)), a similar kind of ionic salt which is liquid at room temperature, was synthesized by Sir P C Ray three years earlier (in 1911) to Walden. Unfortunately, the latter work had not been paid any attention for more than a century because of unknown reasons. As per literature review, henceforth, Sir P C Ray and his coauthor (J N Rakshit) of that very particular synthesis of the ionic compound which was liquid at room temperature should be regarded as the discoverer of room temperature ionic liquid.
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