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Ionic liquids have largely been investigated for their peculiar experimental properties and their uncountable applications. From a computational point of view, they pose many challenges, mainly because they are composed of ions, and at ambient temperature and pressure most of them take liquid form, lacking a periodic structure. Describing mixtures of ionic liquids with other ionic liquids or molecular solvents is an even greater challenge.

Computational chemistry and physics provide important contributions for understanding the reported properties of ionic liquids and mixtures, rationalizing them and predicting behaviors that have yet to be experimentally investigated.

We invite contributions to this Special Issue concerning new computational contributions to explain or rationalize ionic liquids’ properties and their use in real applications.

Dr. Annalisa Paolone
Dr. Oriele Palumbo
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density functional theory
molecular dynamics
ab initio molecular dynamics
continuum modeling
COSMO methods
machine learning

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Some Considerations about the Anodic Limit of Ionic Liquids Obtained by Means of DFT Calculations

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Entropy 2023, 25(5), 793; https://doi.org/10.3390/e25050793 - 12 May 2023

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Ionic liquids are good candidates as the main component of safe electrolytes for high-energy lithium-ion batteries. The identification of a reliable algorithm to estimate the electrochemical stability of ionic liquids can greatly speed up the discovery of suitable anions able to sustain high potentials. In this work, we critically assess the linear dependence of the anodic limit from the HOMO level of 27 anions, whose performances have been experimentally investigated in the previous literature. A limited r Pearson’s value of ≈0.7 is found even with the most computationally demanding DFT functionals. A different model considering vertical transitions in a vacuum between the charged state and the neutral molecule is also exploited. In this case, the best-performing functional (M08-HX) provides a Mean Squared Error (MSE) of 1.61 V² on the 27 anions here considered. The ions which give the largest deviations are those with a large value of the solvation energy, and therefore, an empirical model that linearly combines the anodic limit calculated by vertical transitions in a vacuum and in a medium with a weight dependent on the solvation energy is proposed for the first time. This empirical method can decrease the MSE to 1.29 V² but still provides an r Pearson’s value of ≈0.72. Full article

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Reaction Mechanism of CO₂ with Choline-Amino Acid Ionic Liquids: A Computational Study

Fabio Ramondo

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Simone Di Muzio

Entropy 2022, 24(11), 1572; https://doi.org/10.3390/e24111572 - 31 Oct 2022

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Carbon capture and sequestration are the major applied techniques for mitigating

C O_{2}

Carbon capture and sequestration are the major applied techniques for mitigating

C O_{2}

emission. The marked affinity of carbon dioxide to react with amino groups is well known, and the amine scrubbing process is the most widespread technology. Among various compounds and solutions containing amine groups, in biodegradability and biocompatibility perspectives, amino acid ionic liquids (AAILs) are a very promising class of materials having good

C O_{2}

absorption capacity. The reaction of amines with

C O_{2}

follows a multi-step mechanism where the initial pathway is the formation of the

C - N

bond between the

N H_{2}

group and

C O_{2}

. The added product has a zwitterionic character and can rearrange to give a carbamic derivative. These steps of the mechanism have been investigated in the present study by quantum mechanical methods by considering three ILs where amino acid anions are coupled with choline cations. Glycinate, L-phenylalanilate and L-prolinate anions have been compared with the aim of examining if different local structural properties of the amine group can affect some fundamental steps of the

C O_{2}

absorption mechanism. All reaction pathways have been studied by DFT methods considering, first, isolated anions in a vacuum as well as in a liquid continuum environment. Subsequently, the role of specific interactions of the anion with a choline cation has been investigated, analyzing the mechanism of the amine–

C O_{2}

reaction, including different coupling anion–cation structures. The overall reaction is exothermic for the three anions in all models adopted; however, the presence of the solvent, described by a continuum medium as well as by models, including specific cation- -anion interactions, modifies the values of the reaction energies of each step. In particular, both reaction steps, the addition of

C O_{2}

to form the zwitterionic complex and its subsequent rearrangement, are affected by the presence of the solvent. The reaction enthalpies for the three systems are indeed found comparable in the models, including solvent effects. Full article

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