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This thesis involves the synthesis of two main classes of triaminocyclopropenium (tac) Ionic Liquids (ILs) (i) Amino Acid Ionic Liquids (AAILs) and (ii) reduced-symmetry cations. [C₃(NEt₂)₂(NRR’)]X (X = TFSA and MeSO₄) were prepared, whereby NHR is derived from amino acids. Optically pure AAILs, [E₄AminoAcid]X (X = TFSA and MeSO₄) were obtained as a mixture of the IL and its zwitterion. The ratios of these mixtures were determined by pH titration and microanalysis. The AAILs specific rotations and pKa values were determined. AAILs can be used for chiral discrimination and form diasterreomeric salts with the entioenriched sodium salt of Mosher’s acid. The AAILs were also successfully used as a solvent and/or catalyst in an aldol reaction and a Diels-Alder reaction. The low-molecular weight series, [C₃(NMe₂)₂(NRR’)]X and [C₃(NMe₂)₂(NR’2)]X was synthesized and characterized: protic ILs NRR’, where R = ethyl, propyl, allyl, butyl, - CH2CH2OCH₃ and pentyl, R’ = H and X = TFSA: and aprotic ILs NRR’, where R = Me, R’ = ethyl, allyl, propyl, butyl, -CH2CH2OCH₃ and hexyl and X = TFSA and DCA. ILs with C2v symmetry [C₃(NEt₂)₂(NH2)]X (X = TFSA and MeSO₄), [C₃(NEt₂)₂(NBu2)]I, [C₃(NEt₂)₂(NHex₂)]I and [C₃(NEt₂)₂(NHex₂)]OTf were also synthesized and characterized. The C₃h cations, [C₃(NMeR)₃]X (R = ethyl, allyl, -CH2CH2OCH₃ and phenyl, X = TFSA and DCA) were successfully prepared as well. The D₃h cation salts [C₃(NEt₂)₃]X (X = MeC6H4SO₃, OTf, I and F5C6O) and [C₃(NBu2)₃]X (X = B(CN)4 and FAP) were also prepared. The tac-based ILs [C₃(NEt₂)₃]+ and [C₃(NBu2)₃]+ were also complexed with metal halides - - 2- 2- forming salts with FeCl₄ , SnCl₃ , CuCl₄ and ZnCl₄ . Reaction of pentachlorocyclopropane (C₃Cl5H) with BuNH2 gave the open ring allylium product [H2C₃(NBuH)4]2+. This was characterized as Cl- and TFSA- salt. During the synthesis of [C₃(NMe₂)₃]Cl, the open ring cation [HC₃(NMe₂)4]+ was also isolated and was characterized as the TFSA- salt. XX Abstract The TGA, DSC, density, viscosity, conductivity, and molar conductivity properties for the ILs were measured where possible. The viscosity and conductivity data was fitted for the Arrhenius and Vogel-Fulcher Tamman equations. The entire tac-based ILs lie below the KCl ideal line in Walden plot. A fragility plot was obtained by fitting the viscosity data and all the tac-based ILs were fragile. The crystal structures of [C₃(NPhH)₃]TFSA, [C₃(NEt₂)₃]FeCl₄ and [HC₃(NMe₂)4]Cl.2CH₃Cl were determined.

abstract: The field of Ionic Liquid (IL) research has received considerable attention during the past decade. Unique physicochemical properties of these low melting salts have made them very promising for applications in a many areas of science and technology such as electrolyte research, green chemistry and electrodeposition. One of the most important parameters dictating their physicochemical behavior is the basicity of their anion. Using four sets of Protic Ionic Liquids (PILs) and spectroscopic characterization of them, a qualitative order for anion basicity of ILs is obtained. Protic Ionic Liquids are made by proton transfer form a Brønsted acid to a base. The extent of this transfer is determined by the free energy change of the proton transfer process. For the cases with large enough free energy change during the process, the result is a fully ionic material whereas if the proton transfer is not complete, a mixture of ions, neutral molecules and aggregates is resulted. NMR and IR spectroscopies along with electrochemical and mechanical characterization of four sets of PILs are used to study the degree of ionicity. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Chemistry 2016

Yes / Ionic liquids (ILs) are key materials for the development of a wide range of emerging technologies. Protic ionic liquids, an important class of ILs, have long been envisioned as promising anhydrous electrolytes for fuel cells. It is well known that in comparison to all other cations, protons exhibit abnormally high conductivity in water. Such superprotonic dynamics was expected in protic ionic conductors as well. However, many years of extensive studies led to the disappointing conclusion that this is not the case and most protic ionic liquids display subionic behavior. Therefore, the relatively low conductivity seems to be the main obstacle for the application of protic ionic liquids in fuel cells. Using dielectric spectroscopy, herein we report the observation of highly decoupled conductivity in a newly synthesized protic ionic conductor. We show that its proton transport is strongly decoupled from the structural relaxation, in terms of both temperature dependence and characteristic rates. This finding offers a fresh look on the charge transport mechanism in PILs and also provides new ideas for design of anhydrous materials with exceptionally high proton conductivity. / National Science Centre within the framework of the Opus project (Grant No. DEC 2011/03/B/ST3/02072). Financial assistance from FNP START. The LDRD Program of ORNL, managed by UT-Battelle, LLC, for the U.S. DOE. Support from the NSF under grant CHE-1213444.

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Ce travail de thèse porte sur l’étude d’électrolytes pour utilisation dans des systèmes de stockage énergétiques tels que les batteries lithium-ions. Les matériaux spécifiques à cette étude sont des liquides ioniques à base de pyrrolidinium avec le fluorosulfonylimide (FSI) en tant que contre-ion, le tout dopé au lithium.La méthode de caractérisation principale est la spectroscopie par Résonance Magnétique Nucléaire (RMN) qui peut être utilisée pour résoudre la structure, la dynamique ou encore l’arrangement spatial entre les anions et les cations. Des mesures de diffusion et des expériences de relaxation réseau-spin, utilisant 1H pour les cations, 19F pour les anions et 7Li, sont effectuées pour étudier le transport ionique dans le liquide ainsi que la rotation moléculaire respective des différents ions.Toutefois, dans le but de mieux comprendre le mécanisme de transport des ions à un niveau moléculaire dans ces liquides ioniques, l’expérience Heteronuclear Overhauser Effect SpectroscopY (HOESY) a été employée. Cette technique est basée sur le transfert d’aimantation entre deux isotopes nucléaires dans l’espace. Puisque le transfert est généralement dû à des interactions de courtes portées, des informations concernant les différentes proximités des espèces dans le liquide sont obtenues.Une grande partie de cette étude est concentrée sur le développement de la technique HOESY elle-même, avec l’amélioration de la séquence d’impulsion RMN mais aussi de l’analyse du signal, dans l’optique d’une étude quantitative et du développement d’une procédure automatique et systématique d’ajustement des données théoriques aux données expérimentales. Des simulations par Dynamique Moléculaire (DM) et des mesures de relaxation RMN sont utilisées pour permettre l’analyse des expériences OESY, permettant alors d’accéder à la corrélation des distances entre les noyaux et des paramètres de relaxation tels que les temps de corrélation, pouvant permettre une meilleure compréhension du transport ionique. En plus du développement de cette technique, de nouveaux liquides ioniques incluant des chaînes alkyles plus longues, des cycles plus longs ou encore un groupe ethero-alkyle sur la chaine alkyle sont étudiés par HOESY dans le ut d’observer l’impact de la structure du cation sur les interactions ioniques. Une autre technique complémentaire, la polarisation dynamique nucléaire, est aussi adoptée afin d’étudier les liquides ioniques dans un état vitreux imitant leur structure à l’état liquide. / This work is focused on the study of electrolytes for energy storage devices such as lithium ion batteries. The specific materials are pyrrolidinium-based ionic liquid electrolytes with bis-fluorosulfonylimide (FSI) as the counter anion, and also containing lithium.The main experimental method of characterization is Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, which can be used to probe structure, dynamics and spatial arrangements between anions and cations. NMR-based diffusion measurements or spin lattice relaxation experiments, using 1H for cations, 19F for anions and 7Li, are used to study the ionic transport in the liquid and the molecular tumbling of the different ions respectively.However, in order to attempt to better understand the ion transport mechanism at the molecular level in these ionic liquids, the HOESY (Heteronuclear Overhauser Effect SpectroscopY) experiment is used. This technique is based on a transfer of magnetization through space between two different nuclear isotopes. As this transfer is generally mediated by short-range interactions, it provides information on which species are close together in the liquid.A large part of this work is based on the development of the HOESY technique itself, both improving the implementation of the NMR pulse sequence to reduce the experimental time, but also improving ways to analyze the resulting data in a quantitative way and developing an automatic and systematic data fitting procedure. Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations and NMR relaxation measurements are also used to assist the HOESY analysis, allowing correlations with distances between nuclei and motional parameters such as correlation times to be established, which will lead to a better understanding of the ion interactions. In addition to this technique development, others ionic liquids including longer alkyl, longer cycle or even an ether-o-alkyl group on the alkyl chain, are studied by HOESY in order to observe the impact of the cation structure on the ionic interactions. Another complementary technique, dynamic nuclear polarization, is also used in order to study the ionic liquid in the glassy state structure which mimics the liquid state.

A reação peroxioxalato está sendo amplamente utilizada para as mais variadas aplicações analíticas e bioanalíticas, porém, esta transformação é pouco estudada em meios aquosos, importantes principalmente para aplicações bioanalíticas. Neste trabalho foi estudada a reação de oxalato de bis(2,4,6-triclorofenila) (TCPO) com peróxido de hidrogênio (H2O2), em 1,2-dimetoxietano e em água, catalisada por 2,6-lutidina (2,6-dimetilpiridina). Observou-se que a reação ocorre com essa base agindo como um catalisador não-nucleofílico. A reação peroxioxalato foi realizada também em tampão borato onde a espécie reativa é a base conjugada do H2O2. A partir da dependência da constante de velocidade de decaimento da intensidade de emissão (kobs) com a concentração de peróxido de hidrogênio e do tampão borato se obtiveram evidências que a reação neste meio ocorre por catálise básica específica. Por último, a reação foi estudada em meio tampão borato contendo os líquidos iônicos (LIs) tetrafluoroborato de 1-butil-3-metilimidazólio (bmimBF4), cloreto de 1-alil-3- metilimidazólio (AmimCl) e acetato de 1-alil-3-metilimidazólio (AmimAc). A presença dos LIs no tampão resulta em um aumento dos rendimentos de formação de estados excitados singlete (Φs). Contrariamente, o aumento da concentração de sais comuns, como cloreto e acetato de tetrabutilamonio e NaCl, causou a diminuição dos valores dos rendimentos quânticos de quimiluminescência. As constantes de velocidade observadas aumentaram tanto com a concentração dos LIs quanto dos sais comuns. Os valores dos rendimentos quânticos de quimiexitação obtidos foram correlacionados com os parâmetros de viscosidade e polaridade das misturas. De maneira geral, foi mostrado neste trabalho que a reação peroxioxalato pode ser conduzida em meios essencialmente aquosos e a presença de LIs leva a um aumento do rendimento quântico de emissão, fatos importantes para potenciais aplicações analíticas. / The peroxyoxalate reaction is being widely used for a variety of analytical and bioanalytical applications, however, this transformation is very little studied in aqueous media, important mainly for bioanalytical applications. In this work was studied the reaction of bis(2,4,6-trichlorophenil) oxalate (TCPO) with hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) in 1,2-dimethoxyethane and water catalyzed by 2,6-lutidine (2,6-dimethylpyridine) was studied and it is observed that it occurs with this base acting as a non-nucleophilic catalyst. The peroxyoxalate reaction was also performed in aqueous borate buffer where the reactive species is the conjugate base of H2O2. Evidence is obtained that this reaction occurs through specific base catalysis from the dependence of the emission decay rate constant (kobs) with the hydrogen peroxide and borate buffer concentration. Finally, the reaction was studied in borate buffer media containing the ionic liquids (ILs) 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate (bmimBF4), 1-allyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride (AmimCl) and 1-allyl-3-methylimidazolium acetate (AmimAc). The presence of ILs in the buffer results in a concentration dependend increase of the yields of excited state formation (Φs). In contrast, the increase of the concentration of common salts, such as tetrabutylammonium chloride, tetrabutylammonium acetate and NaCl, caused a decrease in the emission quantum yields. The observed rate constants increased with both, the concentration of ILs and common salts. The chemiexcitation quantum yields values obtained were correlated with the viscosity and polarity parameters of the mixtures. In conclusion, it was shown in this work that the peroxyoxalate reaction can be conducted in essentially aqueous media and the presence of ILs leads to an increase in the emission quantum yields, important facts for potential analytical applications.