Publications related to Influence of the Interaction between Hydrogen Sulfide and Ionic Liquids on Solubility: Experimental and Theoretical Investigation

The solubility parameters of carbon dioxide and ionic liquids: Are they an enigma?

In a recent article entitled "Solubility Parameter of Carbon Dioxide-an Enigma"[1], Marcus reported the literature values for the solubility parameter of liquid carbon dioxide (CO2) at 298 K with discrepancies as large as 200%. An analogous article on ioni ...

ELSEVIER2021

Computer Simulation of the Surface of Aqueous Ionic and Surfactant Solutions

Mária Lbadaoui-Darvas

The surface of aqueous solutions of simple salts was not the main focus of scientific attention for a long while. Considerable interest in studying such systems has only emerged in the past two decades, following the pioneering finding that large halide io ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Decreasing the Stability of Borohydride with Ionic Liquids for Hydrogen Storage and Carbon Dioxide Conversion

Loris Giovanni Lombardo

The world needs to move from a fossil fuel to a renewable energy based society. With the increasing electricity production from wind and PV, short and long term energy storage are becoming one of challenge of the 21st century. While batteries are the prefe ...

EPFL2021

Anion Selection Criteria for Water-in-Salt Electrolytes

Corsin Battaglia, David Reber, Maximilian Becker

Water-in-salt electrolytes have enabled the development of novel high-voltage aqueous lithium-ion batteries. This study explores the reasons why analogous sodium electrolytes have struggled to reach the same level of electrochemical stability. Solution str ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2020

Orientation, rotation and solvation of ions in helium nanodroplets

Verónica Oliver Álvarez de Lara

Helium nanodroplets are liquid, finite size, nanoscale helium clusters that have been employed since the 1990s as a matrix for high-resolution spectroscopy of molecules. Spectroscopic studies of ionic species inside helium droplets were not however realise ...

EPFL2019

Characterizing the Effects of a “Switchable Water” Additive on the Aqueous Solubility of Small Molecules

Paul Joseph Dyson, Sarika Burra, Philip Gregory Jessop

“Switchable water” is an aqueous solution containing a water‐soluble amine additive that exhibits CO2‐switchable properties, such as large changes in ionic strength, by forming an ammonium bicarbonate salt. Switchable water has been used to reversibly “sal ...

2018

An efficient Pt nanoparticle–ionic liquid system for the hydrodeoxygenation of bio-derived phenols under mild conditions

Gabor Laurenczy, Paul Joseph Dyson, Zhaofu Fei, Cornel Fink, Lu Chen

Platinum nanoparticles (NPs) were synthesized in situ in the ionic liquid (IL) [Emim]NTf2 (1-ethyl-3- methylimidazolium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide) as well as in mixtures of [Emim]NTf2 with a second IL, Lewis acid or Brønsted acid, but in the absenc ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2017

Ionic solutions of two-dimensional materials

Vasiliki Tileli, Kathleen Marie Cox

Strategies for forming liquid dispersions of nanomaterials typically focus on retarding reaggregation, for example via surface modification, as opposed to promoting the thermodynamically driven dissolution common for molecule-sized species. Here we demonst ...

Nature Publishing Group2017

Synthesis and reactivity of a terminal uranium(IV) sulfide supported by siloxide ligands

Rosario Scopelliti, Marinella Mazzanti, Julie Renée Michelle Andrez

The reactions of the tetrasiloxide U(III) complexes [U(OSi(OtBu)3)4K] and [U(OSi(OtBu)3)4][K18c6] with 0.5 equiv. of triphenylphosphine sulfide led to reductive S-transfer reactions, affording the U(IV) sulfide complexes [SU(OSi(OtBu)3)4K2]2, 1, and [{SU(O ...

2016

How Strong Is Hydrogen Bonding in Ionic Liquids? Combined X-ray Crystallographic, Infrared/Raman Spectroscopic, and Density Functional Theory Study

Gabor Laurenczy, Rosario Scopelliti, Paul Joseph Dyson, Zhaofu Fei, Ning Yan, Emilia Paunescu

Hydrogen bonding in ionic liquids based on the 1-(2'-hydroxylethyl)-3-methylimidazolium cation (C(2)OHmim) and various anions (A) of differing H-bond acceptor strength, viz. hexafluorophosphate PF6, tetrafluoroborate BF4, bis-(trifluoro ...

American Chemical Society2013

Phosphonium and Ammonium Ionic Liquids with Aromatic Anions: Synthesis, Properties, and Platinum Extraction

Michael Groessl

Several hydrophobic long-chain quaternary ammonium and phosphonium ionic liquids (ILs) with functionalized aromatic anions were prepared following a metathesis route using tricaprylmethylammonium chloride (Aliquat 336) and trihexyl(tetradecyl) phosphonium ...

2010

Synthesis of Room-Temperature Ionic Liquids with the Weakly Coordinating [Al(ORF)4]- Anion (RF=C(H)(CF3)2) and the Determination of Their Principal Physical Properties

Gabor Laurenczy, Paul Joseph Dyson, Safak Bulut

A large series of ionic liqs. (ILs) based on the weakly coordinating alkoxyaluminate [Al(hfip)4]- (hfip: hexafluoroisopropoxy) with classical as well as functionalized cations were prepd., and their principal phys. properties detd. M.ps. are between 0 ([C4 ...

2010

Crystallisation of inorganic salts containing 18-crown-6 from ionic liquids

Gabor Laurenczy, Rosario Scopelliti, Paul Joseph Dyson, Zhaofu Fei, Ning Yan

Reaction of the zwitterionic imidazolium salt [(CH2COOH)(CH2COO)i.m.] with K2CO3 or BaO in the presence of 18-crown-6 affords the salts [(CH2COO)2i.m.][K(18-crown-6)] and [(CH2COO)2i.m.]2[Ba(18-crown-6)]. Recrystn. of these crown complexes from the ionic l ...

Elsevier2010

simple physical model for the simultaneous rationalisation of melting points and heat capacities of ionic liquids

Paul Joseph Dyson

The anal. of potential energy surfaces of ion pairs within the framework of an anharmonic oscillator model allows rationalization and prediction of m.ps. (Tmp) and heat capacities (Cp) of ionic liqs. (ILs) comprising di- and trialkylimidazolium or tetraalk ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2010

Tetraalkylammonium Salts of Weakly Coordinating Aluminates: Ionic Liquids, Materials for Electrochemical Applications and Useful Compounds for Anion Investigation

Michael Graetzel, Ines Raabe, Mingkui Wang

In this study, we investigated the tetraalkylammonium salts of the weakly coordinating fluorinated alkoxyaluminates pftb (Al(O(C(CF3)(3))(4)) hfip (Al(OC(H)-(CF3)(2))(4)) and hftb (Al(OC(CH3)(-) (CF3)(2))(4)) in order to obtai ...

2009

Pd Nanoparticles in a Supported Ionic Liquid Phase: Highly Stable Catalysts for Selective Acetylene Hydrogenation under Continuous-Flow Conditions

Lioubov Kiwi, Gabor Laurenczy, Marina Ruta, Paul Joseph Dyson

Monodispersed Pd nanoparticles of 5 and 10 nm were obtained via reduction of Pd(acac)2 dissolved in ionic liquid (IL), [bmim][PF6], or [bmimOH][TF2N], supported on carbon nanofibers (CNF) anchored to sintered metal fibers (SMF). Using [bmimOH][TF2N], the m ...

2008

How to predict the physical properties of ionic liquids: a volume-based approach

Corinne Daguenet, Paul Joseph Dyson

The mol. vol. Vm (i.e., the sum of the ionic vols. Vion of the constituent ions) of an ionic liq. (IL) in combination with an anion-dependent empirical relationship is all one needs to predict phys. properties such as viscosity, cond., and d. of [N(CN)2]-, ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2007

Heterogeneous dehalogenation of arylhalides in the presence of ionic liquids

Gabor Laurenczy

Dehydrohalogenation of haloaromatics in ionic liquids derived from ethylmethylimidazolium or similar salts has been performed using Pd-C, Pd(OAc)2 and other catalysts using formate salts as a hydrogen source. In the ionic liquid [emim][BF4< ...

2007

A Metallacage Encapsulating Chloride as a Probe for a Solvation Scale in Ionic Liquids

Corinne Daguenet, Paul Joseph Dyson

With the purpose of assessing the reactivity of chloride ions dissolved in ionic liquids (ILs), a relative scale for the solvation of chloride is given for a series of ILs based on the bis(trifluoromethane)sulfonimide ([Tf2N]) anion and differen ...

2007

Structured fiber supports for ionic liquid-phase catalysis used in gas-phase continuous hydrogenation

Lioubov Kiwi, Gabor Laurenczy, Marina Ruta, Paul Joseph Dyson

Structured supported ionic liquid-phase (SSILP) catalysis is a new concept with the advantages of ionic liquids (ILs) used as solvents for homogeneous catalyst and the further benefits of structured heterogeneous catalysts. This is achieved by confining th ...

2007