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  • Physical Chemistry
  • Materials Science
  • Spectroscopy

Background:

  • The phase diagram of choline chloride (ChCl) in ethylene glycol (EG) suggests ideal nonelectrolyte behavior, which is unexpected for salt solutions.
  • Understanding the solvation and aggregation behavior of salts in glycols is crucial for predicting their physical properties.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the solvation and aggregation of choline salts in ethylene glycol using dielectric relaxation spectroscopy (DRS) and quantum-chemical calculations.
  • To elucidate the reasons behind the seemingly ideal behavior of choline chloride-ethylene glycol mixtures.

Main Methods:

  • Broad-band dielectric relaxation spectroscopy (DRS) was employed to study solutions of choline chloride (ChCl), choline iodide (ChI), and chlorocholine chloride (ClChCl) in ethylene glycol (EG).
  • Quantum-chemical calculations were performed to complement the experimental spectroscopic data.
  • Measurements were conducted up to saturation at 298.15 K.

Main Results:

  • All three solutes exhibited weak solvation in EG, with only one EG OH-group dynamically affected per solute equivalent.
  • Contact ion pairs were significant below 1 M, but free cation concentrations remained low across all concentrations.
  • A substantial fraction of dipolar cations were undetectable by DRS, suggesting their incorporation into large solute aggregates.

Conclusions:

  • The formation of large solute aggregates, rather than ideal mixing, explains the observed phase diagram of ChCl + EG mixtures.
  • The extensive aggregation leads to the very low ionicity observed in these choline salt/EG systems.
  • The findings challenge the initial assumption of ideal nonelectrolyte behavior for these salt solutions.