HT Approach for the Identification of Anilinium-based Ionic Liquids Suitable for Electropolymerisation

Melbourne / Clayton / Brisbane, Australia High-throughput approach for the identification of anilinium-based ionic liquids that are suitable for electropolymerisation with Chemspeed’s Fully Automated SYNTHESIZER “We report the synthesis of new protic ionic liquids (PILs) based on aniline derivatives and the use of highthroughput (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 synthesized 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).” For details: 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 a}    School of Applied Sciences, RMIT University, GPO Box 2476, Melbourne, VIC 3001, Australia ^b    Mineral Resources, Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Private Bag 10, Clayton, VIC 3169, Australia. E-mail: [email protected] ^c    Manufacturing, Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Private Bag 10, Clayton, VIC 3169, Australia ^d    School of Chemistry, Physics and Mechanical Engineering, Queensland University of Technology, GPO Box 2434, Brisbane, Qld 4001, Australia. E-mail: [email protected] PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS · JUNE 2015 DOI: 10.1039/c5cp02294k