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JOURNAL OF ORGANOMETALLIC CHEMISTRY
Volume 690, Issue 10, Pages 2536-2542Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jorganchem.2004.09.060
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ionic liquids; molten salt; physical properties; phosphonium salts; viscosity; room temperature ionic liquids
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Ionic liquids are salts that are liquid at or near room temperature. Their wide liquid range, good thermal stability, and very low vapor pressure make them attractive for numerous applications. The general approach to creating ionic liquids is to employ a large, unreactive, low symmetry cation with and an anion that largely controls the physical and chemical properties. The most common cations used in ionic liquids are N-alkylpyridinium and N,N'-dialkylimidazolium. Another very effective cation for the creation of ionic liquids is tetraalkylphosphonium, [PR1R2R3R4](+). The alkyl groups, R-n, generally are large and not all the same. The halide salts of several phosphonium cations are available as starting materials for metathesis reactions used to prepare ionic liquids. The large phosphonium cations can combine with relatively large anions to make viscous but free flowing liquids with formula mass greater than 1000 g mol(-1). Some other more massive salts are waxes and glasses. The synthesis and the physical, chemical, and optical properties of phosphonium-ionic liquids having anions with a wide range of masses were measured and are reported here. (c) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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