Computational and Experimental Study of the Behavior of Cyano-Based Ionic Liquids in Aqueous Solution

resumo

The solvation of cyano- (CN-) based ionic liquids (ILs) and their capacity to establish hydrogen bonds (H-bonds) with water was studied by means of experimental and computational approaches. Experimentally, water activity data were measured for aqueous solutions of ILs based on 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium ([BMIM](+)) cation combined with one of the following anions: thiocyanate ([SCN](-)), dicyanamide ([DCA](-)), or tricyanomethanide ([TCM](-)), and of 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium tetracyanoborate ([EMIM][TCB]). From the latter data, water activity coefficients were estimated showing that [BMIM][SCN] and [BMIM][DCA], unlike [BMIM][TCM] and [EMIM][TCB], are able to establish favorable interactions with water. Computationally, the conductor like screening model for real solvents (COSMO-RS) was used to estimate the water activity coefficients which compare well with the experimental ones. From the COSMO-RS results, it is suggested that the polarity of each ion composing the ILs has a strong effect on the solvation phenomena. Furthermore, classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulations were performed for obtaining an atomic level picture of the local molecular neighborhood of the different species. From the experimental and computational data it is showed that increasing the number of CN groups in the ILs' anions does not enhance their ability to establish H-bonds with water but decreases their polarities, being [BMIM][DCA] and [BMIM][SCN] the ones presenting higher propensity to interact.

palavras-chave

MOLECULAR-DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; ACTIVITY-COEFFICIENTS; COSMO-RS; INFINITE DILUTION; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; TRANSPORT-PROPERTIES; PHASE-EQUILIBRIA; BINARY-MIXTURES; WATER MIXTURES; FORCE-FIELD

categoria

Chemistry

autores

Batista, MLS; Kurnia, KA; Pinho, SP; Gomes, JRB; Coutinho, JAP

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agradecimentos

This work was financed by Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia (FCT, Portugal), European Union, QREN, FEDER and COMPETE for funding the CICECO (project PEst-C/CTM/LA0011/2013), and LSRE/LCM (project PEst-C/EQB/LA0020/2013) and for Programa Investigador FCT. FCT is also acknowledged for the Ph.D. and Postdoctoral Grants SFRH/BD/74551/2010 and SFRH/BPD/88101/2012 for M.L.S.B. and K.A.K., respectively.

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