Cucurbit[6]uril was dissolved through encapsulation of an imidazolium-based ionic liquid guest in a pure water environment and the dissolution ability could be tuned by augmenting the imidazolium structure.

In the title compound, C(7)H(9)N(2)O(4) (+)·I(3) (-)·C(7)H(8)N(2)O(4), the two imidazolium units are hydrogen bonded through the carboxyl groups. The units are further linked via inter-molecular O-H⋯O hydrogen bonding, resulting in a one-dimensional ladder-type structure. As a result, the two carb-oxy groups of each imidazolium unit adopt a cis configuration with respect to the imidazolium ring.

A new building block containing an imidazolium salt was synthesized and used for the construction of supramolecular networks with metal ions. We discovered the concomitant formation of the N-heterocyclic carbene-copper complex (CN = 2) in the self-assembly of imidazolium dicarboxylates and copper nitrates in N,N-dimethylformamide under heating. The proton in the 2 position of the imidazolium sa...

Imidazolium ion-terminated self-assembled monolayer (SAM)-modified electrodes achieve CO2 conversion while suppressing hydrogen evolution. Immobile imidazolium ion on gold (Au) electrodes reduce CO2 at low overpotential. The distance between electrode and imidazolium ion separated by alkane thiol affects CO2 reduction activity. CO2 reduction current depends on the tunnel current rate. Although ...

With the aim of enhancing the comprehension of the cation‐π interaction, a computational study of the interaction established between sumanene molecule and various cations was performed. Sumanene is a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon with a bowl‐shaped structure. The curvature of the molecule causes an asymmetry in the distribution of its molecular electrostatic potential that is more ...

Reaction of the imidazolium-stabilized diphosphete-diide IDP with trityl phosphaalkyne affords a mixture which contains molecules 1 and b central C3P3 core, formally carries two-fold negative charge. In order to avoid formation an antiaromatic 8π electron system within conjugated dianionic six-membered [C3P3]2− ring, adopts bicyclic [3.1.0] tricyclic [2.2.0.0] structure are in dynamic equilibri...

Imidazolium salts were conveniently prepared by direct aryl quaternization using arylboronic acids. This process features the tolerance of a broad range of functional groups and excellent chemoselectivity, and is especially effective for the synthesis of unsymmetrical imidazolium salts.

The title compound, C(12)H(20)N(4) (2+)·2BF(4) (-), was prepared by the anion exchange of a dibromide ionic liquid with sodium tetra-fluoro-borate. The asymmetric unit contains one half of the imidazolium cation, which lies about an inversion centre at the mid-point of the central C-C bond of the linking butyl chain. The two planar imidazole rings (r.m.s. deviation = 0.0013 Å) are strictly para...

In the anion of the title compound, (C6H11N2)[B5O6(OH)4], both six-membered borate rings adopt a flattened boat conformation with the spiro-B atom and its opposite O atom deviating from the remainders of the rings by 0.261 (3)/0.101 (2) and 0.160 (3)/0.109 (2) Å, respectively. The imidazolium cation also deviates from planarity due to rotation of the ethyl group (as indicated by the C-N-C-C tor...

A chiral, crown-ether-functionalized bisurea gelator forms supramolecular gels in ionic liquids. The resulting ionogels show a remarkably high thermal stability with gel-sol transition temperatures (T(gs)) reaching more than 100 °C. The mechanical strength of these ionogels is surprisingly high and even comparable to that of cross-linked protein fibres. Furthermore, the ionogels exhibit rapid s...