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- Bhattacharyya, Shubhankar, et al.
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Ether Functionalized Choline Tethered Amino Acid Ionic Liquids for Enhanced CO2 Capture
- 2016
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In: ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering. - : American Chemical Society (ACS). - 2168-0485. ; 4:10, s. 5441-5449
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Amino acid ionic liquids (ILs) are the most interesting and effective for CO2 capture due to their low toxicity, biodegradability and fast reactivity towards CO2. Ionic nature of amino acid ILs can raise an environmental issue if the cation counterpart becomes toxic to the aquatic ecosystems and can become potential atmospheric pollutant. In this regard, choline based ILs are known to be promising scaffolds for the development of less toxic amino acid ILs. However, the existing choline amino acid ILs are highly viscous limiting their applicability as solvents. Ether functionalized choline based amino acid ILs with novel series of less toxic green ILs were explored with reduced viscosity and high CO2 capture capacity. A simple, economic, clean and environmentally benign method was utilized for the synthesis of novel choline based amino acid ILs using a commercially available and economical starting material 2-(dimethylamino)ethanol (deanol, a human dietary food supplement). Reported ILs have low viscosity with high CO2 capture capacity (1.62 mol of CO2 /mol of IL, 4.31 mol of CO2/kg of IL, 19.02 wt.% of CO2). Mechanism of [N1,1,6,2O4][Lys]+CO2 reaction and adduct structure was proposed by means of DFT and NMR.
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- Bhattacharyya, Shubhankar, et al.
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Insights into the Effect of CO2 Absorption on the Ionic Mobility of Ionic Liquids
- 2016
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In: Physical Chemistry, Chemical Physics - PCCP. - 1463-9076 .- 1463-9084. ; 18:41, s. 28617-28625
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- We investigate a comparative effect of CO2 absorption on the ionic mobility of two choline based ionic liquids comprising two different anions such as threonine and imidazole. The synthesized ionic liquids were characterized using 1H and 13C NMR and other spectroscopic techniques. By keeping a common cation and changing the anion from threonine to imidazole both the viscosity and density reduced drastically. We found that [N1,1,6,2OH][Imi] exhibits the highest CO2 capture capacity at 20 °C of 5.27 mol of CO2 per kg of ionic liquid (1.27 mol of CO2 per mol of ionic liquid, 23.26 wt% of CO2) whereas [N1,1,6,2OH][Threo] exhibits 3.6 mol of CO2 per kg of ionic liquid (1.05 mol of CO2 per mol of ionic liquid, 15.87 wt% of CO2). The activation energy for diffusion is calculated using the Vogel-Fulcher-Tamman (VFT) equation in the form of diffusivity. It was found that the activation energy for the diffusion of [N1,1,6,2OH][Threo] is ∼10 times higher than that of [N1,1,6,2OH][Imi]. 1H diffusion NMR data revealed that the diffusivity of [N1,1,6,2OH][Imi] is increased after CO2 absorption whereas a decrease in diffusivity was observed in the case of [N1,1,6,2OH][Threo]. This anomalous behavior of [N1,1,6,2OH][Imi] was further explained by using DFT calculations.
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