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MATERIALS CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
Volume 264, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.matchemphys.2021.124369
Keywords
BMIM][BF4]; [BMIM][TfO]; ATR-FTIR; NMR; TGA/DTA; UV-vis spectroscopy; Antibacterial activity
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- Deanship of Scientific Research at Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Two room temperature ionic liquids with the same cation but different anions were studied for their structural, optical properties, and antibacterial activity. Both liquids demonstrated antibacterial activity against gram-positive and gram-negative bacterial strains. UV-vis spectroscopy revealed energy gaps of 3.79 +/- 0.13 and 3.37 +/- 0.04 eV for the two liquids, respectively. The study employed the Sellmeier oscillator model and the Drude-Lorentz model for the first time to investigate the optical and dielectric properties of ionic liquids.
Two room temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) having the same cation (1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium [BMIM](+)) and different anions (tetrafluoroborate [BF4] or trifluoromethanesulfonate [TfO]) have been investigated by ATR-FTIR, NMR, TGA/DTA, UV-vis spectroscopy, agar-disk diffusion, minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) and minimum bactericidal concentration (MBC) assay. Structural investigations by ATR-FTIR and NMR spectroscopy demonstrated that the [BMIM](+) cation exhibits hydrogen bonding with the [BF4] and [TfO] anions via the C (2)-H and C (4, 5)-H of the imidazolium cation ring in addition to the protons of the alkyl and methyl groups. UV-vis spectroscopy revealed an energy gaps of 3.79 +/- 0.13 and 3.37 +/- 0.04 eV for [BMIM][BF4] and [BMIM][TfO], respectively. Single term Sellmeier oscillator model and the Drude-Lorentz model were employed for the first time to investigate the optical and dielectric properties of ionic liquids. Applying the former model, enables us to extract the average inter-band oscillator wavelength (lambda(0)), the average oscillator strength (S-0), single oscillator energy (E-0), dispersion energy (E-d) while the latter gives the plasmon frequency (omega(p)), reduced resonance frequency (omega(0)) and the electron lifetime at femtosecond level. Antibacterial assay by MIC and MBC demonstrated that both ionic liquids have antibacterial activity against gram-positive and gram-negative bacterial strains.
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