Acetone as a polar cosolvent for pyridinium-based ionic liquids
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2016
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Chaban, Vitaly V. 
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This work reports transport and structure properties of the three pyridinium-based ionic liquids (RTILs) - N-butylpyridinium hexafluorophosphate [BPY][PF6], N-butylpyridinium trifluoromethanesulfonate [BPY][TF] and N-butylpyridinium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl) imide [BPY][TFSI] - in their mixtures with acetone (ACET). The ionic conductivity maximum occurs at 10 mol% RTIL, irrespective of the anion. The absolute ionic conductivity value of [BPY][TF] is higher than those of other RTILs. This is explained by a weaker cation-anion binding than that in [BPY][PF6] and smaller anion size than that of [BPY][TFSI]. All the investigated RTILs are infinitely miscible with ACET, which boosts their diffusivity and conductivity. A small viscosity of ACET favors a drastic viscosity decay in the RTIL-ACET mixtures. Structure analysis (radial distribution functions, ionic clusters) of the mixtures are in line with their transport properties providing a reliable microscopic interpretation of the observed macroscopic properties. As a molecular co-solvent, ACET constitutes an interesting alternative and competitor to more intensively investigated liquids.
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Rsc Advances. Cambridge, v. 6, n. 11, p. 8906-8912, 2016.