The impact of sulfur functionalisation on nitrogen-based ionic liquid cations

Santos, Ana R.; Hanson-Heine, Magnus W. D.; Besley, Nicholas A.; Licence, Peter

Abstract

It has been demonstrated that bonding and interactions within ionic liquids (ILs) can be elegantly tuned by manipulation of structure and the introduction of functional groups. Here we use XPS to investigate the impact of sulfur containing substituents on the electronic structure of a series of N-based cations, all with a common anion, [NTf2]-. The experiments reveal complexity and perturbation of delocalised systems which cannot be easily interpreted by NMR and XPS alone, DFT provides critical insight into bonding and underpins the assignment of spectra and development of deconstruction models for each system studied.

Citation

Santos, A. R., Hanson-Heine, M. W. D., Besley, N. A., & Licence, P. (2018). The impact of sulfur functionalisation on nitrogen-based ionic liquid cations. Chemical Communications, 54(81), 11403-11406. https://doi.org/10.1039/c8cc05515g

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Sep 17, 2018
• Online Publication Date: Sep 17, 2018
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2018
• Deposit Date: Oct 1, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Jan 2, 2019
• Journal: Chemical Communications
• Print ISSN: 1359-7345
• Electronic ISSN: 1364-548X
• Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 54
• Issue: 81
• Pages: 11403-11406
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/c8cc05515g
• Keywords: Materials Chemistry; Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials; General Chemistry; Surfaces, Coatings and Films; Metals and Alloys; Ceramics and Composites; Catalysis
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1140827
• Publisher URL: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2018/CC/C8CC05515G#!divAbstract
• Additional Information: : This document is Similarity Check deposited; : Supplementary Information; : Ana R. Santos (ORCID); : Ana R. Santos (ResearcherID); : Nicholas A. Besley (ORCID); : Nicholas A. Besley (ResearcherID); : Peter Licence (ORCID); : Peter Licence (ResearcherID); : Authors can choose between single-blind and double-blind peer review; : Received 9 July 2018; Accepted 17 September 2018; Accepted Manuscript published 17 September 2018; Advance Article published 25 September 2018