Probing the acidity of carboxylic acids in protic ionic liquids, water, and their binary mixtures: Activation energy of proton transfer

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 117, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2456-2465

  Shukla, Shashi Kant ^a   Kumar, Anil ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; CARBOXYLATION; DISSOCIATION; IONIC LIQUIDS; ORGANIC ACIDS; POSITIVE IONS; PROTON TRANSFER; STABILIZATION;

ACIDITY DETERMINATION; ALKYLIMIDAZOLIUM; CARBOXYLATE ANIONS; CONJUGATE ANIONS; HAMMETT ACIDITY FUNCTION; HARD-SOFT ACID-BASE; LINEAR CORRELATION; PROTIC IONIC LIQUIDS;

BINARY MIXTURES;

EID: 84874594006     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: 15205207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp310927w     Document Type: Article

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