The solvation and electrochemical behavior of copper acetylacetonate complexes in ionic liquids

Electrochemical Behavior of Cobaltocene in Ionic Liquids

The electrochemical behavior of cobaltocenium has been studied in a number of room temperature aprotic ionic liquids. Well defined, diffusion controlled, anodic and cathodic peaks were found for the Cc+/Cc (cobaltocenium/cobaltocene) reduction/oxidation on gold, platinum and glassy carbon electrodes. Values of the peak separation parameters suggest quasireversibility or even irreversibility for...

DNA molecular solvation in neat ionic liquids.

The structural and molecular mechanism of double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) and single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) solvation in ten room-temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) is disclosed herein. We show that the Drew Dickerson B DNA structure solvated in neat RTILs based on imidazolium, oxazolium, pyrrolidinium, pyrimidinium and quaternary ammonium cations, combined with hexafluorophosphate and tetrafluorobrom...

Ionic liquids: Solvation ability and polarity*

The role of ionic liquids (ILs) as solvents in chemistry is limited by the poor understanding of the solvation phenomenon in these media. The usual classification criteria used for molecular solvents through various experimental measurements fail to insert ILs into a univocal classification for ILs. Here, we first discuss the unsuitability of the usual interpretative scheme for molecular liquid...

Ionic Liquids for the Future Electrochemical Applications

Single-molecule electrochemical gating in ionic liquids.

The single-molecular conductance of a redox active molecular bridge has been studied in an electrochemical single-molecule transistor configuration in a room-temperature ionic liquid (RTIL). The redox active pyrrolo-tetrathiafulvalene (pTTF) moiety was attached to gold contacts at both ends through -(CH(2))(6)S- groups, and gating of the redox state was achieved with the electrochemical potenti...