TY - JOUR
T1 - On the Use of a Protic Ionic Liquid with a Novel Cation To Study Anion Basicity
AU - Hasani, Mohammad
AU - Yarger, Jeffery
AU - Angell, Charles
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2016/9/5
Y1 - 2016/9/5
N2 - The need for reliable means of ordering and quantifying the Lewis basicity of anions is discussed and the currently available methods are reviewed. Concluding that there is need for a simple impurity-insensitive tool, we have sought, and here describe, a new method using NMR spectroscopy of a weak base, a substituted urea, 1,3-dimethyl-2-imidazolidinone (DMI), as it is protonated by Brønsted acids of different strengths and characters. In all cases studied the product of protonation is a liquid (hence a protic ionic liquid). NMR spectroscopy detects changes in the electronic structure of the base upon interaction with the proton donors. As the proton-donating ability, that is, acidity, increases, there is a smooth but distinct transition from a hydrogen-bonded system (with no net proton transfer) to full ionicity. The liquid state of the samples and high concentration of nitrogen atoms, despite the very low natural abundance of its preferred NMR-active isotope (15N), make possible the acquisition of15N spectra in a relatively short time. These15N, along with13C, chemical shifts of the carbonyl atom, and their relative responses to protonation of the carbonyl oxygen, can be used as a means, sensitive to anion basicity and relatively insensitive to impurities, to sort anions in order of increasing hydrogen bond basicity. The order is found to be as follows: SbF6−<BF4−<NTf2−>ClO4−>FSO3−<TfO−<HSO4−<Cl−<MsO−.
AB - The need for reliable means of ordering and quantifying the Lewis basicity of anions is discussed and the currently available methods are reviewed. Concluding that there is need for a simple impurity-insensitive tool, we have sought, and here describe, a new method using NMR spectroscopy of a weak base, a substituted urea, 1,3-dimethyl-2-imidazolidinone (DMI), as it is protonated by Brønsted acids of different strengths and characters. In all cases studied the product of protonation is a liquid (hence a protic ionic liquid). NMR spectroscopy detects changes in the electronic structure of the base upon interaction with the proton donors. As the proton-donating ability, that is, acidity, increases, there is a smooth but distinct transition from a hydrogen-bonded system (with no net proton transfer) to full ionicity. The liquid state of the samples and high concentration of nitrogen atoms, despite the very low natural abundance of its preferred NMR-active isotope (15N), make possible the acquisition of15N spectra in a relatively short time. These15N, along with13C, chemical shifts of the carbonyl atom, and their relative responses to protonation of the carbonyl oxygen, can be used as a means, sensitive to anion basicity and relatively insensitive to impurities, to sort anions in order of increasing hydrogen bond basicity. The order is found to be as follows: SbF6−<BF4−<NTf2−>ClO4−>FSO3−<TfO−<HSO4−<Cl−<MsO−.
KW - NMR spectroscopy
KW - acidity
KW - anion basicity
KW - basicity
KW - ionic liquids
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U2 - 10.1002/chem.201601428
DO - 10.1002/chem.201601428
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84985010386
SN - 0947-6539
VL - 22
SP - 13312
EP - 13319
JO - Chemistry - A European Journal
JF - Chemistry - A European Journal
IS - 37
ER -