Room Temperature Molten Salts Based on Trialkylsulfonium Cations and Bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide

Abstract

Abstract Symmetric and aliphatic trialkylsulfonium cation form room temperature molten salts (RTMS) with bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide (TFSI). In particular RTMS based on triethylsulfonium shows low melting point (−35 °C) and the lowest viscosity (30 mPs at 25 °C) of all the TFSI based RTMS as reported so far. The conductivity of 7.1 mS cm−1 at 25 °C is the highest of all the non-chloroaluminate RTMS based on aliphatic onium cations.