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Ionic liquids (ILs) do not have a detectable vapour pressure at room temperature. But scientists at the University of Nottingham have managed to measure the enthalpy of vaporisation of a series of imidazolium-based ILs with the help of mass spectrometry.

The authors found that the ILs evaporated as neutral ion pairs.

Read this exciting research in PCCP:

The vapour of imidazolium-based ionic liquids: a mass spectrometry study
A. Deyko, K. R. J. Lovelock, P. Licence and R. G. Jones
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2011
DOI: 10.1039/C1CP21821B