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Hideo Enozawa1, Shusaku Ukai1, Hiroshi Ito1
1Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering , Aichi Institute of Technology , Toyota , Aichi 470-0392 , Japan.
Abstract:
A sodium salt of a polycyclic trioxotriangulene (TOT) anion with six triethylene glycol chains exhibiting the formation of a colored ionic liquid at room temperature was synthesized. The ionic liquid is air- and water-stable, reflecting thermodynamic stabilization of a charge-delocalized TOT anion. Upon protonation of the TOT anion, the salt shows halochromic behaviors in solution and even in the neat liquid state with HCl vapor. The ionic liquid shows no morphological change with the chromism, presumably as a result of poor intermolecular interactions between π skeletons.
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