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Ionic Liquids and Water: Hydrophobicity vs. Hydrophilicity.

ABSTRACT: Many chemical processes rely extensively on organic solvents posing safety and environmental concerns. For a successful transfer of some of those chemical processes and reactions to aqueous media, agents acting as solubilizers, or phase-modifiers, are of central importance. In the present work, the structure of aqueous solutions of several ionic liquid systems capable of forming multiple solubilizing environments were modeled by molecular dynamics simulations. The effect of small aliphatic chains on solutions of hydrophobic 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium bis(trifluoromethyl)sulfonylimide ionic liquids (with alkyl = propyl [C₃C₁im][NTf₂], butyl [C₄C₁im][NTf₂] and isobutyl [iC₄C₁im][NTf₂]) are covered first. Next, we focus on the interactions of sulphonate- and carboxylate-based anions with different hydrogenated and perfluorinated alkyl side chains in solutions of [C₂C₁im][C_nF_2n+1SO₃], [C₂C₁im][C_nH_2n+1SO₃], [C₂C₁im][CF₃CO₂] and [C₂C₁im][CH₃CO₂] (n = 1, 4, 8). The last system considered is an ionic liquid completely miscible with water that combines the cation N-methyl-N,N,N-tris(2-hydroxyethyl)ammonium [N_{1 2OH 2OH 2OH}]⁺, with high hydrogen-bonding capability, and the hydrophobic anion [NTf₂]^-. The interplay between short- and long-range interactions, clustering of alkyl and perfluoroalkyl tails, and hydrogen bonding enables a wealth of possibilities in tailoring an ionic liquid solution according to the needs.

SUBMITTER: Rodrigues RF

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8658901 | biostudies-literature |

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