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Heterogeneity Of Reaction Rates In An Ionic Liquid: Quantitative Results From 2d- Muppets, Kalyanasis Sahu, Sean Kern, Mark Berg
Heterogeneity Of Reaction Rates In An Ionic Liquid: Quantitative Results From 2d- Muppets, Kalyanasis Sahu, Sean Kern, Mark Berg
Sean J. Kern
The hypotheses that ionic liquids are structurally heterogeneous at the molecular level and, even further, that this heterogeneity can transfer to the rates of reactions run in ionic liquids is being actively debated. Here, this hypothesis is tested using multiple population-period transient spectroscopy (MUPPETS), an emerging type of multidimensional measurement that resolves the kinetics of subensembles within a heterogeneous sample. A previous MUPPETS study of the excited-state twisting and electronic relaxation of auramine indicated that an ionic-liquid solvent induces rate dispersion due to a combination of heterogeneous and homogeneous processes, but those data could not quantitatively separate these contributions [Khurmi, …