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Johannes Hunger1,2, Thomas Sonnleitner3, Liyuan Liu1
1†FOM Institute AMOLF, Science Park 104, 1098 XG Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Abstract:
We study the molecular rotation of the protic room-temperature ionic liquid ethylammonium nitrate with dielectric relaxation spectroscopy and femtosecond-infrared spectroscopy (fs-IR) of the ammonium N-H vibrations. The results suggest that the rotation of ethylammonium ion takes place via large angular jumps. Such nondiffusive reorientational dynamics is unique to strongly hydrogen-bonded liquids such as water and indicates that the intermolecular interaction is highly directional in this class of ionic liquids.
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