Heats of Vaporization of Room Temperature Ionic Liquids by Tunable Vacuum Ultraviolet Photoionization
Abstract
The heats of vaporization of the room temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) N-butyl-N-methylpyrrolidinium bistrifluorosulfonylimide, N-butyl-N-methylpyrrolidinium dicyanamide, and 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium dicyanamide are determined using a heated effusive vapor source in conjunction with single photon ionization by a tunable vacuum ultraviolet synchrotron source. The tunable vacuum ultraviolet source has enabled accurate measurement of photoion appearance energies. These appearance energies are in good agreement with MP2 calculations for dissociative photoionization of the ion pair. These experimental heats of vaporization, photoion appearance energies, and ab initio calculations corroborate vaporization of these RTILs as intact cation-anion pairs.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 07, 2009
- Accession Number
- ADA513395
Entities
People
- Albert To
- Christine Koh
- Daniel Strasser
- Ghanshyam L Vaghjiani
- Oleg Kostko
- Stephen R. Leone
- Steven D Chambreau