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Room-temperature ionic liquids as solvents for electronic absorption spectroscopy of halide complexes

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Solution studies of halide complexes of the transition metals, of general type [MXn]y− (X=Cl or Br), have been severely hampered by the existence of both solvation and solvolysis phenomena1. We demonstrate here that the use of room-temperature ionic liquids (often misleadingly referred to as molten salts) as solvents circumvents both of these problems, and permits the first reliable solution spectra to be recorded for these species; in some cases the spectra exhibit quite remarkable resolution.

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  1. School of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9QJ, UK

    Denise Appleby, Kenneth R. Seddon & Janet E. Turp

  2. Department of Chemistry, University of Mississippi, University,, Mississippi, 38677, USA

    Charles L. Hussey

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Appleby, D., Hussey, C., Seddon, K. et al. Room-temperature ionic liquids as solvents for electronic absorption spectroscopy of halide complexes. Nature 323, 614–616 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1038/323614a0

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