Journal
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 21, Issue 33, Pages 18278-18289Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c9cp03552d
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Funding
- project CICECO -Aveiro Institute of Materials - FCT/MCTES (PIDDAC) [POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007679, FCT UID/CTM/50011/2019]
- Associate Laboratory LSRE-LCM - FCT/MCTES (PIDDAC) [POCI-01-0145-FEDER-006984, FCT UID/EQU/50020/2019]
- project MultiBiorefinery - FCT/MCTES (PIDDAC) [POCI-01-0145-FEDER-016403]
- FEDER under the PT2020 Partnership Agreement
- NORTE2020 through PT2020 [NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000006]
- ERDF
- FCT [SFRH/BD/135976/2018, SFRH/BD/129040/2017, IF/01468/2015, IF/00894/2015]
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [SFRH/BD/129040/2017] Funding Source: FCT
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There is a lack of fundamental knowledge on deep eutectic solvents, even for the most extensively studied mixtures, such as the mixture of cholinium chloride and urea, which prevents a judicious choice of components to prepare new solvents. The objective of this work is to study and understand the fundamental interactions between cholinium chloride and urea that lead to the experimentally observed melting temperature depression. To do so, the structure of urea was strategically and progressively modified, in order to block certain interaction centres, and the solid-liquid equilibrium data of each new binary system was experimentally measured. Using this approach, it was concluded that the most important interaction between cholinium chloride and urea occurs through hydrogen bonding between the chloride anion and the amine groups. Any blockage of these groups severely hampers the melting point depression effect. Raman spectroscopy and DFT calculations were utilized to study in more detail this hydrogen bonding and its nuances.
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