The
1
H
NMR chemical shift of water exhibits non-monotonic
dependence on the composition of an aqueous mixture of 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium
chloride, [C4mim][Cl], ionic liquid (IL). A clear minimum is observed
for the
1
H NMR chemical shift at a molar fraction of the
IL of 0.34. To scrutinize the molecular mechanism behind this phenomenon,
extensive classical molecular dynamics simulations of [C4mim][Cl]
IL and its mixtures with water were carried out. A combined quantum
mechanics/molecular mechanics approach based on the density functional
theory was applied to predict the NMR chemical shifts. The proliferation
of strongly hydrogen-bonded complexes between chloride anions and
water molecules is found to be the reason behind the increasing
1
H NMR chemical shift of water when its molar fraction in the
mixture is low and decreasing. The model shows that the chemical shift
of water molecules that are trapped in the IL matrix without direct
hydrogen bonding to the anions is considerably smaller than the
1
H NMR chemical shift predicted for the neat water. The structural
features of neat IL and its mixtures with water have also been analyzed
in relation to their NMR properties. The
1
H NMR spectrum
of neat [C4mim][Cl] was predicted and found to be in very reasonable
agreement with the experimental data. Finally, the experimentally
observed strong dependence of the chemical shift of the proton at
position 2 in the imidazolium ring on the composition of the mixture
was rationalized.
Quantum mechanics/molecular dynamics approaches have been applied to unveil the anomalous upfield shift of the 1H NMR signal of acetic acid by going from low-concentration solution in cyclohexane to the neat liquid.
The 1 H NMR spectra of 10 −5 mole fraction solutions of 1-decyl-3-methyl-imidazolium chloride ionic liquid in water, acetonitrile, and dichloromethane have been measured. The chemical shift of the proton at position 2 in the imidazolium ring of 1-decyl-3methyl-imidazolium (H2) is rather different for all three samples, reflecting the shifting equilibrium between the contact pairs and free fully solvated ions. Classical molecular dynamics simulations of the 1decyl-3-methyl-imidazolium chloride contact ion pair as well as of free ions in water, acetonitrile, and dichloromethane have been conducted, and the quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics methods have been applied to predict NMR chemical shifts for the H2 proton. The chemical shift of the H2 proton was found to be primarily modulated by hydrogen bonding with the chloride anion, while the influence of the solventsthough differing in polarity and capabilities for hydrogen bondingis less important. By comparing experimental and computational results, we deduce that complete disruption of the ionic liquid into free ions takes place in an aqueous solution. Around 23% of contact ion pairs were found to persist in acetonitrile. Ion-pair breaking into free ions was predicted not to occur in dichloromethane.
The 1 H− 13 C cross-polarization (CP) kinetics in poly [2-(methacryloyloxy)ethyltrimethylammonium chloride] (PME-TAC) was studied under moderate (10 kHz) magic-angle spinning (MAS). To elucidate the role of adsorbed water in spin diffusion and proton conductivity, PMETAC was degassed under vacuum. The CP MAS results were processed by applying the anisotropic Naito and McDowell spin dynamics model, which includes the complete scheme of the rotating frame spin−lattice relaxation pathways. Some earlier studied proton-conducting and nonconducting polymers were added to the analysis in order to prove the capability of the used approach and to get more general conclusions. The spin-diffusion rate constant, which describes the damping of the coherences, was found to be strongly depending on the dipolar I−S coupling constant (D IS ). The spin diffusion, associated with the incoherent thermal equilibration with the bath, was found to be most probably independent of D IS . It was deduced that the drying scarcely influences the spin-diffusion rates; however, it significantly (1 order of magnitude) reduces the rotating frame spin−lattice relaxation times. The drying causes the polymer hardening that reflects the changes of the local order parameters. The impedance spectroscopy was applied to study proton conductivity. The activation energies for dielectric relaxation and proton conductivity were determined, and the vehicle-type conductivity mechanism was accepted. The spin-diffusion processes occur on the microsecond scale and are one order faster than the dielectric relaxation. The possibility to determine the proton location in the H-bonded structures in powders using CP MAS technique is discussed.
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