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Room-temperature ionic liquids: slow dynamics, viscosity, and the red edge effect
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Room-temperature ionic liquids: slow dynamics, viscosity, and the red edge effect

Zhonghan Hu and Claudio J Margulis
Accounts of chemical research, Vol.40(11), pp.1097-1105
11/2007
DOI: 10.1021/ar700046m
PMID: 17661437

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Abstract

Ionic liquids (ILs) have recently attracted significant attention from academic and industrial sources. This is because, while their vapor pressures are negligible, many of them are liquids at room temperature and can dissolve a wide range of polar and nonpolar organic and inorganic molecules. In this Account, we discuss the progress of our laboratory in understanding the dynamics, spectroscopy, and fluid dynamics of selected imidazolium-based ILs using computational and analytical tools that we have recently developed. Our results indicate that the red edge effect, the non-Newtonian behavior, and the existence of locally heterogeneous environments on a time scale relevant to chemical and photochemical reactivity are closely linked to the viscosity and highly structured character of these liquids.
Photochemistry Viscosity Temperature Models, Chemical Time Factors Computer Simulation Models, Molecular Ionic Liquids - chemistry

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