Ready and ABIL

The RAMP centre was acknowledged for our contribution in the synthesis of a anilinium-based ionic liquids (AB-ILs) library suitable for further use in electropolymerizations.

High-throughput approach for the identification of anilinium-based ionic liquids that are suitable for electropolymerisation†

Muhammad E. Abdelhamid ^ab, Timothy Murdoch ^c, Tamar L. Greaves ^ac, Anthony P. O’Mullane *^d and Graeme A. Snook *^b
aSchool of Applied Sciences, RMIT University, GPO Box 2476, Melbourne, VIC 3001, Australia
^bMineral Resources, Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Private Bag 10, Clayton, VIC 3169, Australia. E-mail: Graeme.Snook@csiro.au
^cManufacturing, Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Private Bag 10, Clayton, VIC 3169, Australia
^dSchool of Chemistry, Physics and Mechanical Engineering, Queensland University of Technology, GPO Box 2434, Brisbane, Qld 4001, Australia. E-mail: anthony.omullane@qut.edu.au

First published on 19th June 2015

DOI: 10.1039/C5CP02294K (Paper) Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2015, 17, 17967-17972

Abstract

We report the synthesis of new protic ionic liquids (PILs) based on aniline derivatives and the use of high-throughput (HT) techniques to screen possible candidates. In this work, a simple HT method was applied to rapidly screen different aniline derivatives against different acids in order to identify possible combinations that produce PILs. This was followed by repeating the HT process with a Chemspeed robotic synthesis platform for more accurate results. One of the successful combinations were then chosen to be synthesised on a larger scale for further analysis. The new PILs are of interest to the fields of ionic liquids, energy storage and especially, conducting polymers as they serve as solvents, electrolytes and monomers at the same time for possible electropolymerisation (i.e. a self-contained polymer precursor).