1-Butyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate

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1-Butyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate
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1-Butyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate, also known as BMIM-PF6, is a viscous, colourless, hydrophobic and non-water soluble ionic liquid. Together with 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate, BMIM-BF4, it is one of the most widely studied ionic liquids and is commercially available from most of the major international suppliers of chemicals. It is known to very slowly decompose in the presence of water.[1]

[edit] Solubility

  • soluble: 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate, ...
  • non-soluble: diethyl ether, water

[edit] References

  1. ^ R.P. Swatloski, J.D. Holbrey and R.D. Rogers (2003). "Ionic liquids are not always green: hydrolysis of 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate". Green Chem. 5: 361–363. doi:10.1039/b304400a. 

[edit] Further reading

  • S. Carda-Broch, A. Berthod, D.W. Armstrong,. "Solvent properties of the 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate ionic liquid". Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry 375 (2): 191–199. doi:10.1007/s00216-002-1684-1. 
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