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HOT article from FD154: Ionic Liquids
This article by Deyko and Jones describes in detail the interaction of water at the surface of two ionic liquids. The authors found that the ILs were arranged so they had a hydrophobic surface layer. Water was able to absorb into the ILs at room temperature but no absorption into the frozen ILs was observed.
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Adsorption, absorption and desorption of gases at liquid surfaces: water on [C8C1Im][BF4] and [C2C1Im][Tf2N]
Alexey Deyko and Robert G. Jones
DOI: 10.1039/C1FD00062D
Deyko and Jones' experimental setup.
HOT article from FD154: Ionic Liquids
Wishart and coworkers describe their studies of the effect of radiolysis in ionic liquids. They found slight differences in the behaviour of duroquinone in ILs compared to in conventional solvents and suggest that their insights may have potential applications in controlling photodegradation of solar cells and batteries as well as in dealing with spent nuclear fuel.
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Electron solvation dynamics and reactivity in ionic liquids observed by picosecond radiolysis techniques
James F. Wishart, Alison M. Funston, Tomasz Szreder, Andrew R. Cook and Masao Gohdo
DOI: 10.1039/C1FD00065A
Faraday Discussion 153: Coherence and Control in Chemistry has now been published online.
Take a look at this exciting volume, which covers the following themes:
In the volume you can find all of the papers and fascinating discussion from the conference, which was held in Leeds, UK, in July.
A recommendation from the Chair:
Professor Ben Whitaker (University of Leeds, UK), Chair of Faraday Discussion 153, particularly recommends General Discussion section C because:
“A longstanding result is that coherent control over relative product cross-sections using one-photon excitation should not be possible… However, recent experiments (some of which are presented in this Discussion volume) using phase modulation of weak-field (single photon) excitation demonstrably result in control. The contradiction with previously held belief and its resolution is debated by experts in the field in the General Discussion of this volume.”
To read the discussion about weak/one photon control, click here.
Highlights from the volume include:
Extracting dynamics of excitonic coherences in congested spectra of photosynthetic light harvesting antenna complexes
Justin R. Caram and Gregory S. Engel
Faraday Discuss., 2011, 153, 93-104
Coherent control of vibrational transitions: Discriminating molecules in mixtures
A. C. W. van Rhijn, A. Jafarpour, M. Jurna, H. L. Offerhaus and J. L. Herek
Faraday Discuss., 2011, 153, 227-235
Coherently-controlled two-dimensional spectroscopy: Evidence for phase induced long-lived memory effects
Valentyn I. Prokhorenko, Alexei Halpin and R. J. Dwayne Miller
Faraday Discuss., 2011, 153, 27-39
Coherent control of single molecules at room temperature
Daan Brinks, Richard Hildner, Fernando D. Stefani and Niek F. van Hulst
Faraday Discuss., 2011, 153, 51-60
You can purchase this volume as an individual book through our website.
HOT article from FD154!
The recent Faraday Discussion 154 on Ionic Liquids took place at Queen’s University, Belfast.
Margarida Costa Gomes presented her group’s work on the solubility and thermodynamics of solvation of ethane and n-butane in various ionic liquids. The authors found that the alkanes were more soluble in ILs with longer alkyl chains and observed preferential solvation in the non-polar part of the ILs.
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Using ethane and butane as probes to the molecular structure of 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium bis[(trifluoromethyl)sulfonyl]imide ionic liquids
Margarida F. Costa Gomes, Laure Pison, Alfonso S. Pensado and Agilio A. H. Pádua
DOI: 10.1039/C1FD00074H
