Editors: | Kongoli F, Gaune-Escard M, Mauntz M, Rubinstein J, Dodds H.L. |
Publisher: | Flogen Star OUTREACH |
Publication Year: | 2015 |
Pages: | 310 pages |
ISBN: | 978-1-987820-30-0 |
ISSN: | 2291-1227 (Metals and Materials Processing in a Clean Environment Series) |
Ionic liquids (ILs) are gaining wide recognition as novel solvents in chemistry that remain in liquid state in a wide range of temperature. It is well known that ILs are "designed" solvents because of their tunable physical and chemical properties (the first and the second generation of ILs). Recently, the third generation of ILs with targeted biological properties containing biologically active components, extends the sphere of their use in pharmacy and medicine as the potential drugs, and also for regulation of plant growth and protection from unwanted diseases.
In this work, binary mixtures of synthesized 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium salicylate, [bmim][Sal], and water were studied. Due to the lack of information about the physical-chemical properties of salicylate ILs, interactions of cation with salicylate and interactions of both cation and salicylate with water molecules, a detailed investigation of thermodynamic and transport properties of this mixture was performed. The results and conclusions were conducted applying both experimental (volumetric and transport properties) and computational approach (molecular dynamics). The obtained data provided significant information about structure making properties of salicylate based ionic liquid and interactions of [bmim][Sal] and water.