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The mobility and the mechanism of ion pairing of 1,1 electrolytes in aqueous solutions were investigated systematically on nine imidazolium based ionic liquids (ILs) from 1-methylimidazolium chloride, [MIM][Cl], to 1-dodecyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride, [1,3-DoMIM][Cl], with two isomers 1,2-dimethylimidazolium chloride, [1,2-MMIM][Cl], and 1,3-dimethylimidazolium chloride, [1,3-MMIM][Cl]. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, statistical mechanics calculations in the framework of the integral equation theory using one-dimensional (1D-) and three-dimensional (3D-) reference interaction site model (RISM) approaches as well as conductivity measurements were applied. From experiment and MD simulations it was found that the mobility/diffusion coefficients of cations in the limit of infinite dilution decrease with an increasing length of the cation alkyl chain, but not linearly. The aggregation tendency of cations with long alkyl chains at higher IL concentrations impedes their diffusivity. Binding free energies of imidazolium cations with the chloride anion estimated by RISM calculations, MD simulations and experiments reveal that the association of investigated ILs as model 1,1 electrolytes in water solutions is weak but evidently dependent on the molecular structure (alkyl chain length), which also strongly affects the mobility of cations.

Mobility and association of ions in aqueous solutions: the case of imidazolium based ionic liquids