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Determination of the Lewis acidity of ionic liquids by means of an IR spectroscopic probe

Yali Yang, Yuan Kou

Chemical Communications · 2004 · 267 citations · 13 references

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Abstract

Pyridine and ethanenitrile can be used as molecular probes to measure the Lewis acidities of ionic liquids by monitoring the shift of IR absorption bands near 1450 cm(-1) for pyridine and in the range 2250-2340 cm(-1) for ethanenitrile.

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