Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry (Jan 2014)

Cyclic phosphonium ionic liquids

  • Sharon I. Lall-Ramnarine,
  • Joshua A. Mukhlall,
  • James F. Wishart,
  • Robert R. Engel,
  • Alicia R. Romeo,
  • Masao Gohdo,
  • Sharon Ramati,
  • Marc Berman,
  • Sophia N. Suarez

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3762/bjoc.10.22
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 271 – 275

Abstract

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Ionic liquids (ILs) incorporating cyclic phosphonium cations are a novel category of materials. We report here on the synthesis and characterization of four new cyclic phosphonium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)amide ILs with aliphatic and aromatic pendant groups. In addition to the syntheses of these novel materials, we report on a comparison of their properties with their ammonium congeners. These exemplars are slightly less conductive and have slightly smaller self-diffusion coefficients than their cyclic ammonium congeners.

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