resumo
Although previous studies attempted to characterize the liquidliquid phase behaviour between water and ionic liquids (ILs), the impact of non-cyclic cations on the solubilities is poorly studied and yet to be understood. In this work, the mutual solubilities between water and ILs containing the anion bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide, [NTf2]-, combined with the cations diethylmethylsulfonium, [S-221][NTf2], triethylsulfonium, [S-222][NTf2], butyltrimethylammonium, [N-4111][NTf2], tributylmethylammonium, [N-4441][NTf2], methyltrioctylammonium, [N-1888][NTf2], and methyltrioctylphosphonium, [P-1888][NTf2], from (288.15 to 318.15) K and at 0.1 MPa, were experimentally measured and further compared with predictions from the COnductor-like Screening MOdel for Real Solvents (COSMO-RS). All the studied phase diagrams display an upper critical solution temperature (UCST). The binary system composed of [P-1888][NTf2] exhibits the widest immiscibility gap, followed by [N-18888][NTf2], [N-4441][NTf2], [S-222][NTf2], [N-4111][NTf2], and [S-221][NTf2]. The COSMO-RS is able to correctly predict the experimental UCST behaviour and the cation impact on the immiscibility regimes observed. Natural Population Analysis (NPA) calculations were additionally performed for the isolated cations in the gas phase indicating that the differences in the water-IL mutual miscibilities might not result only from the hydrophobicity of the cation (derived from the increase of the alkyl chains length) but also from the charge distribution of the central atom and attached methylene groups. This fact explains the enhanced solubility of ammonium-based ILs in water here identified
palavras-chave
COSMO-RS; BINARY-SYSTEMS; THERMOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES; T=298.15 K; EXTRACTION; SOLVENTS; BIS(TRIFLUOROMETHYLSULFONYL)IMIDE; APPROXIMATION; EQUILIBRIA; PREDICTION
categoria
Chemistry; Physics
autores
Kurnia, KA; Quental, MV; Santos, LMNBF; Freire, MG; Coutinho, JAP
nossos autores
Kiki Adi Kurnia
Bolseiro de pós-Doutoramento
Mara Guadalupe Freire Martins
Investigador Coordenador
Maria João Quental
Bolseiro de pós-DoutoramentoGrupos
G1 - Materiais Porosos e Nanossistemas
G4 - Materiais Renováveis e Economia Circular
G5 - Materiais Biomiméticos, Biológicos e Vivos
G6 - Materiais Virtuais e Inteligência Artificial
Projectos
Igy Technology: A Purication Platform using Ionic-Liquid-Based Aqueous Biphasic Systems (IGYPURTECH)
agradecimentos
This work was financed by national funding from Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia (FCT, Portugal), European Union, QREN, FEDER and COMPETE for the projects PEST-C/CTM/LA0011/2013 and EXPL/QEQ-PRS/0224/2013. The authors also thank FCT for the postdoctoral grant SFRH/BPD/88101/2012 of K.A.K. M.G. Freire acknowledges the European Research Council (ERC) for the Grant ERC-2013-StG-337753.