“…Both the samples show absorption bands at 220 nm, which was ascribed to imidazolium cation. Besides this band, for Cu-BIM-PMO it shows two other peaks at 290 and 400 nm, which were assigned to the CuCl 4 2− species [19,24,29]. It could be deduced that the copper ion was introduced to the materials via the formation of CuCl 4 2− complex.…”