Mixing cations with different alkyl chain lengths markedly depresses the melting point in deep eutectic solvents formed from alkylammonium bromide salts and urea.

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The melting point of a deep eutectic solvent formed from a ternary mixture of ethylammonium bromide (EABr), butylammonium bromide (BABr) and urea is 10 °C, which is almost 40 °C lower than the melting points of binary DESs formed from either EABr:urea or BABr:urea mixtures. This reveals a new route to prepare room temperature DESs via mixing different cations.

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Chem Commun (Camb)

Title: Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)

Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

ISSN (Electronic): 1364-548X

ISSN (Print): 1359-7345

Publication date (Electronic): Feb 16 2017

Volume: 53

Issue: 15

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[1 ] Priority Research Centre for Advanced Fluids and Interfaces, Newcastle Institute for Energy and Resources, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia. rob.atkin@newcastle.edu.au.

[2 ] School of Science, College of Science, Engineering and Health, RMIT University, GPO Box 2476, Melbourne, Victoria 3001, Australia.

[3 ] School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia.

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DOI: 10.1039/c7cc00201g

PubMed ID: 28165519

SO-VID: afdac590-2c40-4ded-a13a-a74c8b4cc86c

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