Theoretical Study on Ionic Liquid Based on 1-Ethyl-3-MethylImidazolium Cation and Hexafluorophosphate or Tetrafluoroborate
Theoretical Study on Ionic Liquid Based on 1-Ethyl-3-MethylImidazolium Cation and Hexafluorophosphate or Tetrafluoroborate作者机构:College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering China University of Petroleum (East China) Dongying 257061 Shandong China
出 版 物:《Journal of Natural Gas Chemistry》 (天然气化学杂志(英文版))
年 卷 期:2007年第16卷第4期
页 面:428-436页
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学科分类:0808[工学-电气工程] 0817[工学-化学工程与技术] 08[工学] 0807[工学-动力工程及工程热物理] 0703[理学-化学]
主 题:Hartree-Fock density functional theory ionic liquid EMIM+ PF6^- BF4^-
摘 要:The Hartree-Fock and DFT/B3LYP methods have been employed to investigate the electronic structures of 1-ethyl-3-methyl-imidazolium cation (EMIM+), BF4^-, PF6^-, EMIM+BF4^-, and EMIM+-PF6^- using the Gaussian-94 soft-package at 6-31+G(d,p) basis set level for hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, boron, phosphorus, and fluorine atoms. Comparison of the electronic structures of the lowest energy of EMIM+- BF4^- and EMIM+-PF6^- pairs, and single EMIM+, BF4^- and PF6^- showed that the optimized EMIM+-BF4^- and EMIM+-PF6^- pair conformers were BF4^- and PF6^- outside the 5-ring plane between the ethyl group and the methyl group. The cohesion of C H. … F hydrogen bond between cation and anion is reinforced by charge assistance. The interaction energy between EMIM+ and PF6 is 328.8 kJ/mol at the B3LYP level and 326.6 kJ/mol at the Hartree-Fock level, whereas that between EMIM+ and BF4 is 353.5 kJ/mol at the B3LYP level and 350.5 kJ/mol at the Hartree-Fock level. The low energy interactions caused by bulky asymmetric EMIM+, and charge dispersion of cation and anion give rise to the low melting point of ionic liquid EMIM+-BF4^- and EMIM+-PF6^-. The two hydrogen bonding models of single hydrogen bond formation, and the hydrogen transfer between C2 in EMIM+ and F in BF4^- or PF6^- were principally depicted.