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Anirban Mondal1, Sundaram Balasubramanian1
1Chemistry and Physics of Materials Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research , Bangalore 560 064, India.
Abstract:
A refined set of potential parameters for 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium based room temperature ionic liquids with anions such as acetate, dicyanamide, and thiocyanate has been obtained. Site charges of ions were derived through the density-derived electrostatic and charge partitioning (DDEC/c3) method utilizing periodic density functional theory calculations of these liquids. Intermolecular structure and dynamics, in particular, the collective quantities predicted by the refined force field, match experimental results quantitatively.
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