skip to main content
OSTI.GOV title logo U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Title: Dynamics of an excess hole in the 1-methyl-1-butyl-pyrrolidinium dicyanamide ionic-liquid

Journal Article · · Journal of Chemical Physics
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5009940· OSTI ID:1540141

In a set of recent publications we explored for selected ionic liquids the early stages of excess charge localization and reactivity relevant both to electrochemical and radiation chemistry processes. W explored the dynamics of an excess electron in 1-methyl-1-butyl-pyrrolidinium dicyanamide. When electrons are produced from an ionic liquid, the more elusive hole species are also generated. Depending on the nature of cations and anions and the relative alignment of their electronic states in the condensed phase, the very early hole species can nominally be neutral radicals—if the electron is generated from anions—or doubly charged radical cations if their origin is from cations. However, in reality early excess charge localization is more complex and often involves more than one ion. The dynamics and the transient spectroscopy of the hole are the main objects of this study. We find that in the case of 1-methyl-1-butyl-pyrrolidinium dicyanamide, it is the anions that can most easily lose an electron becoming radical species, and that hole localization is mostly on anionic nitrogen. We also find that the driving force for localization of an excess hole appears to be smaller than that for an excess electron in 1-methyl-1-butyl-pyrrolidinium dicyanamide. The early transient hole species can absorb light in the visible, ultraviolet, and near infrared regions, and we are able to identify the type of states being connected by these transitions.

Research Organization:
Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0001780
OSTI ID:
1540141
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1422663
Journal Information:
Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 148, Issue 19; ISSN 0021-9606
Publisher:
American Institute of Physics (AIP)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 4 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science

References (72)

Investigating non-fluorinated anions for sodium battery electrolytes based on ionic liquids journal October 2016
Electrochemistry of Manganese in the Hydrophilic N-Butyl-N-methylpyrrolidinium Dicyanamide Room-Temperature Ionic Liquid journal January 2008
Performance validation of sodium-ion batteries using an ionic liquid electrolyte journal February 2016
Extraction of the uranyl ion from the aqueous phase into an ionic liquid by diglycolamide journal April 2011
Charge Trapping in Imidazolium Ionic Liquids journal April 2009
Gas-phase and liquid-state properties of esters, nitriles, and nitro compounds with the OPLS-AA force field journal January 2001
EPR Evidence for a Physically Trapped Excess Electron in a Glassy Ionic Liquid journal August 2013
Density-functional tight-binding for beginners journal November 2009
DFTB+, a Sparse Matrix-Based Implementation of the DFTB Method journal July 2007
GROMACS 4:  Algorithms for Highly Efficient, Load-Balanced, and Scalable Molecular Simulation journal February 2008
Electron solvation dynamics and reactivity in ionic liquids observed by picosecond radiolysis techniques journal January 2012
Reactions of solvated electrons with imidazolium cations in ionic liquids journal October 2008
ESR-spectroscopy in ionic liquids: Dynamic linebroadening effects caused by electron-self exchange reactions within the methylviologene redox couple journal March 2006
GROMACS: Fast, flexible, and free journal January 2005
Investigating the electrochemical windows of ionic liquids journal January 2013
The chemical stability of phosphonium-based ionic liquids under gamma irradiation journal January 2015
Dry Excess Electrons in Room-Temperature Ionic Liquids journal December 2011
Femtosecond Electron Solvation at the Ionic Liquid/Metal Electrode Interface journal July 2013
Robust High-performance Dye-sensitized Solar Cells Based on Ionic Liquid-sulfolane Composite Electrolytes journal December 2015
Photodetachment and electron reactivity in 1-methyl-1-butyl-pyrrolidinium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)amide journal July 2012
Electrochemical performance of Na/NaFePO4 sodium-ion batteries with ionic liquid electrolytes journal January 2014
Excess Electron and Hole in 1-Benzylpyridinium-Based Ionic Liquids journal September 2017
The SIESTA method; developments and applicability journal January 2008
Wetting and Tribological Properties of Ionic Liquids journal March 2014
Parametrization and Benchmark of DFTB3 for Organic Molecules journal November 2012
Dynamics of Excess Electronic Charge in Aliphatic Ionic Liquids Containing the Bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)amide Anion journal November 2013
Extension of the Self-Consistent-Charge Density-Functional Tight-Binding Method:  Third-Order Expansion of the Density Functional Theory Total Energy and Introduction of a Modified Effective Coulomb Interaction journal October 2007
Spectrum and Reactivity of the Solvated Electron in the Ionic Liquid Methyltributylammonium Bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide journal July 2003
Fast cycling of Li/LiCoO2 cell with low-viscosity ionic liquids based on bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide [FSI]− journal October 2006
Physical Properties of Selected Ionic Liquids for Use as Electrolytes and Other Industrial Applications journal February 2010
Lithium Secondary Batteries Using Modified-Imidazolium Room-Temperature Ionic Liquid journal June 2006
A consistent and accurate ab initio parametrization of density functional dispersion correction (DFT-D) for the 94 elements H-Pu journal April 2010
Physical and electrochemical properties of room-temperature dicyanamide ionic liquids based on quaternary phosphonium cations journal December 2010
Pulse radiolysis study of ion-species effects on the solvated electron in alkylammonium ionic liquids journal December 2009
Electron Photodetachment from Iodide in Ionic Liquids through Charge-Transfer-to-Solvent Band Excitation journal May 2007
Effect of the damping function in dispersion corrected density functional theory journal March 2011
Radiation Induced Redox Reactions and Fragmentation of Constituent Ions in Ionic Liquids. 1. Anions journal April 2011
Parameterization of the DFTB3 Method for Br, Ca, Cl, F, I, K, and Na in Organic and Biological Systems journal December 2014
Ionic liquids based on imidazolium, ammonium and pyrrolidinium salts of the dicyanamide anion journal July 2002
Photodetachment, electron cooling, and recombination, in a series of neat aliphatic room temperature ionic liquids journal August 2015
Intramolecular Electron Transfer within a Covalent, Fixed-Distance Donor−Acceptor Molecule in an Ionic Liquid journal October 2007
New Alkylether–Thiazolium Room-Temperature Ionic Liquid Lubricants: Surface Interactions and Tribological Performance journal July 2016
Electrochemistry at Negative Potentials in Bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)amide Ionic Liquids journal October 2006
Magnetic Ionic Liquid in Magmolecular Process for Uranium Removal journal May 2016
The SIESTA method for ab initio order- N materials simulation journal March 2002
CL&P: A generic and systematic force field for ionic liquids modeling journal February 2012
Molecular Force Field for Ionic Liquids III:  Imidazolium, Pyridinium, and Phosphonium Cations; Chloride, Bromide, and Dicyanamide Anions journal October 2006
Effects of functional group substitution on electron spectra and solvation dynamics in a family of ionic liquids journal February 2005
Solvation of an Excess Electron in Pyrrolidinium Dicyanamide Based Ionic Liquids journal January 2015
Lithium electrochemistry and cycling behaviour of ionic liquids using cyano based anions journal January 2013
The Radiation Chemistry of Ionic Liquids: A Review journal July 2014
DFTB3: Extension of the Self-Consistent-Charge Density-Functional Tight-Binding Method (SCC-DFTB) journal March 2011
Pyrrolidinium-Based Ionic Liquids. 1-Butyl-1-methyl Pyrrolidinium Dicyanoamide: Thermochemical Measurement, Mass Spectrometry, and ab Initio Calculations journal September 2008
Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells with Solvent-Free Ionic Liquid Electrolytes journal August 2008
Mechanistic investigation of solvent extraction based on anion-functionalized ionic liquids for selective separation of rare-earth ions journal January 2013
Tribological investigations of ionic liquids in ultra-high vacuum environment: Tribological investigations of ionic liquids in ultra-high vacuum environment journal February 2013
Dicyanamide anion based ionic liquids for electrodeposition of metals journal February 2008
The use of protic ionic liquids with cathodes for sodium-ion batteries journal January 2016
Ionic liquids as electrolytes journal August 2006
Density-functional based tight-binding: an approximate DFT method journal January 2009
Low viscosity ionic liquids based on organic salts of the dicyanamide anion journal January 2001
Tribological Properties of the Castor Oil Affected by the Additive of the Ionic Liquid [HMIM]BF4 journal August 2015
Radiation Induced Redox Reactions and Fragmentation of Constituent Ions in Ionic Liquids. 2. Imidazolium Cations journal April 2011
Solvent-Free Ionic Liquid Electrolytes for Mesoscopic Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells journal July 2009
Stabilizing lithium metal using ionic liquids for long-lived batteries journal June 2016
Ionic Liquid Electrolytes for Safer Lithium Batteries: I. Investigation around Optimal Formulation journal September 2016
Amphiphilic and Phase-Separable Ionic Liquids for Biomass Processing journal March 2014
Uranyl Ion Extraction into Room Temperature Ionic Liquids: Species Determination by ESI and MALDI-MS journal June 2010
One-pot conversion of disaccharide into 5-hydroxymethylfurfural catalyzed by imidazole ionic liquid journal May 2016
High power, solvent-free electrochemical double layer capacitors based on pyrrolidinium dicyanamide ionic liquids journal October 2015
Ionic Liquid Electrolytes for Safer Lithium Batteries: I. Investigation Around Optimal Formulation journal June 2016
The use of protic ionic liquids with cathodes for sodium-ion batteries text January 2016

Cited By (2)

Photocatalytic Reverse Semi‐Combustion Driven by Ionic Liquids journal February 2019
Preface: Special Topic on Chemical Physics of Ionic Liquids journal May 2018

Similar Records

Pulse Radiolysis and Computational Studies on a Pyrrolidinium Dicyanamide Ionic Liquid: Detection of the Dimer Radical Anion
Journal Article · Tue Mar 06 00:00:00 EST 2018 · Journal of Physical Chemistry. A, Molecules, Spectroscopy, Kinetics, Environment, and General Theory · OSTI ID:1540141

Physicochemical properties and toxicities of hydrophobicpiperidinium and pyrrolidinium ionic liquids
Journal Article · Mon Jun 25 00:00:00 EDT 2007 · Fluid Phase Equilibria · OSTI ID:1540141

Replica-exchange molecular dynamics simulations of cellulose solvated in water and in the ionic liquid 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride
Journal Article · Tue Sep 02 00:00:00 EDT 2014 · Journal of Physical Chemistry. B, Condensed Matter, Materials, Surfaces, Interfaces and Biophysical Chemistry · OSTI ID:1540141