The corrosion inhibition of mild steel in 1.0 M HCl solution by some selected imidazolium-based ionic liquids, namely 1-propyl-3-methylimidazolium bis(trifluoromethyl-sulfonyl) imide (), and 1-propyl-2,3-methylimidazolium bis(trifluoromethyl-sulfonyl) imide ([PDMIM][NTf 2 ]) was investigated using weight loss, electrochemical measurements, and quantum chemical calculations. All ionic liquids showed appreciable inhibition efficiency. Among the ionic liquids studied, [PDMIM][NTf 2 ] exhibited the best inhibition efficiency. The results from the weight loss, electrochemical measurements and quantum chemical calculations show that the order of inhibition efficiency by the ionic liquids follow the order. At 303 K, polarization measurements indicated that all the studied compounds are mixed-type inhibitors. The adsorption of the studied ionic liquids obeyed the Langmuir adsorption isotherm. There is good correlation between a composite index of quantum chemical parameters and experimentally determined inhibition efficiency of the inhibitors. The quantitative structure activity relationship (QSAR) approach has provided a good indication that an optimum of at least two quantum chemical parameters is required for a good correlation with the experimentally determined inhibition efficiency of the ionic liquids.

The inhibition performances of some selected azine and thiazine dyes, namely, Neutral Red (NR), Azure A Eosinate (AAE), Toluidine Blue (TB), phenosafranin (PS), and Rhodanile Blue (RB), on mild steel corrosion in hydrochloric acid solution was studied the using electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) and Tafel polarization techniques. Quantum chemical calculations based on the density functional theory (DFT) and semiempirical (PM3) methods were used to investigate the reactivities and selectivities of the studied cationic dyes. The effects of inhibitor concentration on the inhibition efficiency have been studied. Inhibition efficiency increased with increase in concentration of all the studied cationic dyes within the concentration range 100−500 ppm. Potentiodynamic studies revealed that all the inhibitors are of mixed type. The results obtained from the EIS studies showed good agreement with the results from potentiodynamic polarization techniques. The quantitative structure−activity relationship (QSAR) approach was also used to correlate the quantum chemical parameters with the experimentally determined inhibition efficiencies. The results show that thiazine dyes are better corrosion inhibitors than azine dyes; however, when azines contain more electron donor centers than thiazines, they are preferred as corrosion inhibitors to thiazine. Hydrogen bonding could be one of the possible physisorption mechanisms for the adsorption of the selected dyes onto the metal surface because of the many hydrogen bond donor centers in the studied compounds. QSAR results show good correlations between a number of quantum chemical parameters and the determined inhibition efficiency.

Corrosion inhibition studies of mild steel in aqueous HCl by some sulphonamides namely sulphamethazine (SMT), sulphachloropyridazine (SCP), sulphabenzamide (SBZ) and sulphaquinoxaline (SQX) has been investigated using experimental techniques (such as weight loss, potentiodynamic polarization (PDP), Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM)) and theoretical methods (using the Density Functional Theory (DFT)). All the compounds effectively inhibited the corrosion process by becoming adsorbed on the metal surface following the Langmuir adsorption isotherm model. The electrochemical results showed that these inhibitors are mixed-type. The theoretical studies were undertaken to provide mechanistic insight into the roles of the different substituents on the corrosion inhibition and adsorption behaviour of the studied compounds. The calculated quantum chemical parameters include the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO), the energy of the HOMO, dipole moment and partial atomic charges, etc.The calculated molecular properties were compared across the structures of the four compounds in order to identify trends related to their reactivity and their corrosion inhibition ability. The results also show that the ability of the sulphonamides to inhibit metal corrosion is strongly dependent on the electron donating ability of the substituent group and that the preferred site for interaction with the metal surface, in all the sulphonamides, is the SO 2 group. Fig. 1 Optimised structure, highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) and the site for electrophilic attack (as shown by the Fukui f À function) for the studied compounds.

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