The importance of solvent reorganisation in the effect of an ionic liquid on a unimolecular substitution process.
Temperature dependent rate studies demonstrate an enthalpic benefit and an entropic cost associated with the change in the rate of a unimolecular substitution process on addition of a high proportion of an ionic liquid, the latter effect being supported by molecular dynamics simulations.
Yau
Hon Man
HM
School of Chemistry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia.
Barnes
Susan A
SA
Hook
James M
JM
Youngs
Tristan G A
TG
Croft
Anna K
AK
Harper
Jason B
JB