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Concentration Dependence of Ion Pairing in Imidazolium-Based Ionic Liquid Solutions
Seoncheol Cha1, Minho Lee1, Doseok Kim1
1Department of Physics, Sogang University, Seoul, Korea.
Abstract:
Infrared vibrational spectroscopy was used to probe concentration-dependent ion pair dissociation of imidazolium-based ionic liquids with three different halide anions (I- , Br- , and Cl- ) in deuterated chloroform. Dissociation of the ion pairs at low concentrations of ionic liquids was found to be the easiest for ionic liquid with Cl- anion, the most electronegative anion among the three investigated. This anomalous trend of ion pair dissociation was explained in terms of varying interaction strength between the solvent (CDCl3 ) and the anions investigated.
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