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Published on: December 20, 2016
Measuring the solubilities of ionic liquids in water using ion-selective electrodes
Natalia V Shvedene1, Svetlana V Borovskaya, Victor V Sviridov
1Department of Chemistry, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119899, GSP-3 Moscow, Russia.
Abstract:
Polyvinyl chloride-plasticized membrane ion-selective electrodes (ISE) based on conventional ion-exchangers have been proposed as a cheap universal tool to measure the solubilities of ionic liquids (ILs) in water. They are applicable for ILs with a wide range of solubilities in water, since the linear range of a potentiometric response spans several orders of magnitude. As an example, we have fabricated and tested ISEs for widely used alkylimidazolium ionic liquids. The aqueous solubilities of four typical ILs have been determined at 21 degrees C: 0.075 +/- 0.001 mol l(-1) (1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium, BMIm, hexafluorophosphate); 0.018 +/- 0.001 mol l(-1) (BMIm bis(triflylimide)); 0.054 +/- 0.007 mol l(-1) (1-butyl-2,3-dimethylimidazolium, BDMIm, hexafluorophosphate); 0.014 +/- 0.001 mol l(-1) (BDMIm bis(triflylimide)).
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