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Confined water in imidazolium based ionic liquids: a supramolecular guest@host complex case

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PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 18, Issue 27, Pages 18297-18304

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ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c6cp03112a

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  1. CNPq
  2. CAPES
  3. FAPERGS (Brazil)
  4. EPSRC [EP/K038869/1] Funding Source: UKRI
  5. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/K038869/1] Funding Source: researchfish

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It is well known that the macroscopic physico-chemical properties of ionic liquids (ILs) are influenced by the presence of water that strongly interferes with the supramolecular organization of these fluids. However, little is known about the function of water traces within this confined space and restricted ionic environments, i.e. between cations and anions. Using specially designed ILs namely 1,2,3-trimethyl-1H-imidazol-3-ium imidazol-1-ide (MMMI center dot Im) and 3-n-butyl-1,2-dimethyl-1H-imidazol-3-ium imidazol-1-ide (BMMI center dot Im), the structure and function of water have been determined in condensed, solution and gas phases by X-ray diffraction studies, NMR, molecular dynamics simulations (MDS) and DFT calculations. In the solid state the water molecule is trapped inside the ionic network (constituted of contact ion pairs formed by pi(+)-pi(-) interaction) through strong H-bonds involving the water hydrogens and the nitrogens of two imidazolate anions forming a guest@host supramolecular structure. A similar structural arrangement was corroborated by DFT calculations and MDS. The presence of a guest@host species (H2O@ILpair) is maintained to a great extent even in solution as detected by H-1-H-1 NOESY-experiments of the ILs dissolved in solvents with low and high dielectric constants. This confined water catalyses the H/D exchange with other substrates containing acidic-H such as chloroform.

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