This work describes synthesis and characterization of three ionic liquids (IL) with imidazolium, phosphonium or sulfonium cations. These ILs were used as precursors for the preparation electrolytes by adding various types lithium salts. Thermal electrochemical properties studied to assess their feasibility usage in lithium-ion batteries (LIB). Ethylmethylimidazolium phosphonic acid ethyl ester ...

Two thread-shaped cations, pyridinium nicotinamide and imidazolium, as their chloride and hexafluorophosphate salts, were studied with regards to complexation with hydrogen-bond-donating acyclic and macrocyclic ligands. In the latter case, the cations form pseudorotaxanes templated by the chloride anion but not hexafluorophosphate. This formation is a function of the coupling of ion-pairing bet...

A family of electronically diverse pyridyl- and picolyl-substituted imidazolium salts have been prepared and coordinated to palladium in a single step, to deliver a variety of palladium(ii)-N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) complexes. Neutral Pd(NHC)X2, cationic [Pd(NHC)2X]X and dicationic [Pd(NHC)2]X2-type complexes have been isolated and fully characterised, with single-crystal X-ray analysis reve...

Imidazolium, pyridinium, pyrrolidinium, piperidinium, morpholinium, and quaternary ammonium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide salts were functionalized with a carboxyl group. These ionic liquids are useful for the selective dissolution of metal oxides and hydroxides. Although these hydrophobic ionic liquids are immiscible with water at room temperature, several of them form a single phase with ...

Two methylene-bridged bis(imidazolium) salts [H4L](PF6)2 and [H4L](PF6)2 with appended amide groups have been synthesized which, after deprotonation, may serve as potentially tetradentate ligands providing two bis(imidazole-2-ylidene) and two amide donors. Using [H4L](PF6)2, a square-planar nickel(II) complex [NiL1] and a six-coordinate bis(ligand) iron(II) complex [Fe(HL)2] have been isolated ...