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Published on: March 24, 2018
Strongly diluted dimethyl-imidazolium chloride-alcohol solutions: solvents are structurally different but dynamic
N A Atamas1, M M Lazarenko1, K S Yablochkova1
1Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv 64, Volodymyrska Street Kyiv UA 01601 Ukraine maxs@univ.kiev.ua.
Abstract:
Based on the analysis of dynamic properties of ionic liquid solutions, the descriptions of diffusion mechanisms are built for dimethylimidazolium chloride (dmim+/Cl-)-alcohol solute systems and the influence of the monohydric alcohols' molecular structure on their diffusion mechanisms in dmim+/Cl--alcohol at T = 400 K by molecular dynamics simulations are studied. From the analysis of radial distribution functions, MSDs, velocity autocorrelation function, and autocorrelation functions of dispersion we found that the motion of all components in IL dmim+/Cl--alcohol (ethanol, propanol) systems at T = 400 K occurs in the sub-diffuse regime and that the dynamics of the dmim+/Cl--alcohol (ethanol, propanol) systems is heterogeneous. The increase of the alkyl chain length of the alcohol molecule does not affect the motion of the ionic liquid components; instead, it increases the characteristic times describing the model representation of alcohol molecule diffusion at short and medium times, without affecting diffusion mechanisms.
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