Fogarty, RM;
Palgrave, RG;
Bourne, RA;
Handrup, K;
Villar-Garcia, IJ;
Payne, DJ;
Hunt, PA;
(2019)
Electron spectroscopy of ionic liquids: experimental identification of atomic orbital contributions to valence electronic structure.
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
, 21
(35)
pp. 18893-18910.
10.1039/c9cp02200g.
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Abstract
The atomic contributions to valence electronic structure for 37 ionic liquids (ILs) are identified using a combination of variable photon energy XPS, resonant Auger electron spectroscopy (RAES) and a subtraction method. The ILs studied include a diverse range of cationic and anionic structural moieties. We introduce a new parameter for ILs, the energy difference between the energies of the cationic and anionic highest occupied fragment orbitals (HOFOs), which we use to identify the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO). The anion gave rise to the HOMO for 25 of the 37 ILs studied here. For 10 of the ILs, the energies of the cationic and anionic HOFOs were the same (within experimental error); therefore, it could not be determined whether the HOMO was from the cation or the anion. For two of the ILs, the HOMO was from the cation and not from the anion; consequently it is energetically more favourable to remove an electron from the cation than the anion for these two ILs. In addition, we used a combination of area normalisation and subtraction of XP spectra to produce what are effectively XP spectra for individual ions; this was achieved for 10 cations and 14 anions.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Electron spectroscopy of ionic liquids: experimental identification of atomic orbital contributions to valence electronic structure |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1039/c9cp02200g |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1039/C9CP02200G |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Chemistry |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10110570 |
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