Determination of the Lewis acidity of ionic liquids by means of an IR spectroscopic probe

10 December 2003

journal article
research article
Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Chemical Communications

No. 2,p. 226-227
https://doi.org/10.1039/b311615h

Abstract

Pyridine and ethanenitrile can be used as molecular probes to measure the Lewis acidities of ionic liquids by monitoring the shift of IR absorption bands near 1450 cm⁻¹ for pyridine and in the range 2250–2340 cm⁻¹ for ethanenitrile.

Keywords

IONIC LIQUID