Targeted modifications in ionic liquids–from understanding to design

F Philippi, T Welton - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Ionic liquids are extremely versatile and continue to find new applications in academia as
well as industry. This versatility is rooted in the manifold of possible ion types, ion …

A molecular level understanding of template effects in ionic liquids

R Elfgen, O Holloczki, B Kirchner - Accounts of Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Conspectus The structure-directing or template effect has been invoked several times for
ionic liquids to explain the different outcome in material synthesis, namely, different scaffolds …

Structure and lifetimes in ionic liquids and their mixtures

S Gehrke, M von Domaros, R Clark, O Hollóczki… - Faraday …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
With the aid of molecular dynamics simulations, we study the structure and dynamics of
different ionic liquid systems, with focus on hydrogen bond, ion pair and ion cage formation …

A systematic study of DFT performance for geometry optimizations of ionic liquid clusters

ZL Seeger, EI Izgorodina - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Clusters of two ion pairs of imidazolium-based ionic liquids were optimized with 43 different
levels of theory, including DFT functionals and MP2-based methods combined with varying …

Ab initio molecular dynamics simulations of SO2 solvation in choline chloride/glycerol deep eutectic solvent

A Korotkevich, DS Firaha, AAH Padua, B Kirchner - Fluid Phase Equilibria, 2017 - Elsevier
Deep eutectic solvents (DESs) are mixtures of ionic compounds and molecular hydrogen
bond donors. Due to the many components and their different interacting subgroups, they …

Finding the best density functional approximation to describe interaction energies and structures of ionic liquids in molecular dynamics studies

E Perlt, P Ray, A Hansen, F Malberg… - The Journal of …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Ionic liquids raise interesting but complicated questions for theoretical investigations due to
the fact that a number of different inter-molecular interactions, eg, hydrogen bonding, long …

Predicting vibrational spectroscopy for flexible molecules and molecules with non‐idle environments

B Kirchner, J Blasius, L Esser… - Advanced Theory and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Flexible molecules and non‐idle environments can present severe problems in the
prediction of vibrational spectra. This work focuses on infrared and vibrational circular …

Uncovering the Properties of Dicationic Ionic Liquid Nanodroplets through Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Simulations

ZO Memar, M Moosavi - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2023 - ACS Publications
The behavior of nanodroplets of an imidazolium-based dicationic ionic liquid, ie,[C1 (mim)
2][PF6] 2, was investigated in this study using ab initio molecular dynamics simulations. The …

Structural investigations on lithium-doped protic and aprotic ionic liquids

P Ray, T Vogl, A Balducci… - The Journal of Physical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Solutions of lithium bis (trifluoromethanesulfonyl) imide (LiNTf2), in four different [NTf2]−-
based ionic liquids, are extensively investigated as potential electrolytes for lithium-ion …

Ab initio molecular dynamics simulations of ionic liquids

JK Shah - Annual Reports in Computational Chemistry, 2018 - Elsevier
Room temperature ionic liquids are solvents comprised of molecular cations and anions.
The negligible vapor pressure of these solvents coupled with the ability to design an ionic …