Zhaofu Fei, Felix D. Bobbink, Emilia Pa ́ unescu, Rosario Scopelliti, and Paul J. Dyson*
Institut des Sciences et Ingenierie Chimiques, Ecole Polytechnique Fe ́ dé rale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Inorg. Chem. 2015, 54, 10504-10512.
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5b02021
Abstract:
Ionic liquids doped with I2, usually resulting in the formation of polyiodide anions, are extensively used as electrolytes and in iodination reactions. Herein, NMR spectroscopy and single-crystal X-ray diffraction were used to rationalize the structures of imidazolium-based polyiodide ionic liquids in the liquid and solid states. Combined, these studies show that extensive interactions between the imidazolium cation and the resulting polyiodide anion are present, which have the net effect of lengthening, polarizing, and weakening the I−I bonds in the anion. This bond weakening rationalizes the high conductivity and reactivity of ionic liquids doped with I2.
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