The Role of Charge Transfer in the Formation of Type I Deep Eutectic Solvent-Analogous Ionic Liquid Mixtures

Abranches, Dinis O.; Schaeffer, Nicolas; Silva, Liliana P.; Martins, Mónia A. R.; Pinho, Simão P.; Coutinho, João A. P.

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The Role of Charge Transfer in the Formation of Type I Deep Eutectic Solvent-Analogous Ionic Liquid Mixtures

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João A. P. Coutinho

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CICECO-Aveiro Institute of Materials, Department of Chemistry, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal

Associate Laboratory LSRE-LCM, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Campus de Santa Apolónia, 5300-253 Bragança, Portugal

Centro de Investigação de Montanha (CIMO), Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Campus de Santa Apolónia, 5300-253 Bragança, Portugal

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Academic Editors: Mert Atilhan and Santiago Aparicio

Molecules 2019, 24(20), 3687; https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules24203687

Received: 30 July 2019 / Revised: 30 September 2019 / Accepted: 10 October 2019 / Published: 14 October 2019

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Eutectic Solvents)

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It was recently shown that tetramethylammonium chloride presented negative deviations to ideality when mixed with tetraethylammonium chloride or tetrapropylammonium chloride, leading to a strong decrease of the melting points of these salt mixtures, in a behavior akin to that observed in the formation of deep eutectic solvents. To better rationalize this unexpected melting point depression between two structurally similar compounds devoid of dominant hydrogen bonding capability, new solid–liquid equilibria data for tetramethylammonium-based systems were measured and analyzed in this work. Molecular dynamics was used to show that the strong negative deviations from ideality presented by these systems arise from a synergetic share of the chloride ions. A transfer of chloride ions seems to occur from the bigger cation in the mixture (which possesses a more disperse charge) to the smaller cation (tetramethylammonium), resembling the formation of metal–chloride complexes in type I deep eutectic solvents. This rearrangement of the charged species leads to an energetic stabilization of both components in the mixture, inducing the negative deviations to the ideality observed. The conclusions presented herein emphasize the often-neglected contribution of charge delocalization in deep eutectic solvents formation and its applicability toward the design of new ionic liquid mixtures. View Full-Text

Keywords: charge transfer; quaternary ammonium; ionic liquid mixtures; deep eutectic solvents; solid–liquid equilibria; molecular dynamics

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Abranches, D.O.; Schaeffer, N.; Silva, L.P.; Martins, M.A.R.; Pinho, S.P.; Coutinho, J.A.P. The Role of Charge Transfer in the Formation of Type I Deep Eutectic Solvent-Analogous Ionic Liquid Mixtures. Molecules 2019, 24, 3687. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules24203687

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Abranches DO, Schaeffer N, Silva LP, Martins MAR, Pinho SP, Coutinho JAP. The Role of Charge Transfer in the Formation of Type I Deep Eutectic Solvent-Analogous Ionic Liquid Mixtures. Molecules. 2019; 24(20):3687. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules24203687

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Abranches, Dinis O., Nicolas Schaeffer, Liliana P. Silva, Mónia A.R. Martins, Simão P. Pinho, and João A.P. Coutinho. 2019. "The Role of Charge Transfer in the Formation of Type I Deep Eutectic Solvent-Analogous Ionic Liquid Mixtures" Molecules 24, no. 20: 3687. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules24203687

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