Investigation of a family of structurally-related guanidinium ionic liquids through XPS and thermal analysis

A family of structurally-related guanidiniumbistriflimide ionic liquids has been prepared and characterized. TGA analyses showed a high thermal stability for all the proposed ionic liquids while DSC and XPS analyses divided them into distinct subsets depending on whether one or more constraining cycles were present. The results obtained highlighted the influence of the cation structure on some of the physico-chemical properties and thus the possibility to tune them by selecting proper substituents. The solvatochromic parameters of a selected guanidinium IL have also been studied