SO2 absorption in EmimCl-TEG deep eutectic solvents

Dezhong Yang, Shaoze Zhang, De En Jiang, Sheng Dai

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Abstract

Deep eutectic solvents (DESs) based on 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride (EmimCl) and triethylene glycol (TEG) with different molar ratios (from 6 : 1 to 1 : 1) were prepared. FTIR and theoretical calculation indicated that the C2-H on the imidazolium ring form hydrogen bonds with the hydroxyl group rather than the ether O atom of the TEG. The EmimCl-TEG DESs can efficiently capture SO2; in particular, EmimCl-TEG (6 : 1) can capture 0.54 g SO2 per gram of solvent at 0.10 atm and 20 °C, the highest absorption amount for DESs under the same conditions. Theoretical calculation showed that the high SO2 absorption capacity was mainly due to the strong charge-transfer interaction between SO2 and the anion Cl-. Moreover, SO2 desorption in the DESs can be controlled by tuning the interaction between EmimCl and TEG, and the DESs can be cycled many times.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)15168-15173
Number of pages6
JournalPhysical Chemistry Chemical Physics
Volume20
Issue number22
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018

Funding

This work was supported financially by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 21503196) and the Fundamental Research Funds of the Central Universities (No. 2652015192). S. Dai was supported by the Division of Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, US Department of Energy.

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