Thermodynamics and activity coefficients at infinite dilution for organic solutes, water and diols in the ionic liquid choline bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide

• Measurements of activity coefficients at infinite dilution using GLC.
• 63 Solvents including water and 6 diols in the ionic liquid choline bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide.
• High selectivity for thiophene/heptane and pyridine/heptane separation.
• The excess thermodynamic functions and the (gas + liquid) partition coefficients were calculated.

The activity coefficients at infinite dilution, γ13∞, for 63 solutes, including alkanes, cycloalkanes, alkenes, alkynes, aromatic hydrocarbons, alcohols, water, thiophene, ethers, ketones, esters, aldehyde, acetonitrile, pyridine and 1-nitropropane and 6 diols in the ionic liquid (IL) choline bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide, [N1112OH][NTf2] were determined by (gas + liquid) chromatography at six temperatures in range of (318.15 to 368.15) K and at three temperatures for diols in the range of (388.15 to 418.15) K. The thermodynamic functions at infinite dilution as partial molar excess Gibbs free energy, ΔG1E,∞, enthalpy ΔH1E,∞, and entropy term TrefΔS1E,∞ were calculated from the experimental γ13∞ values obtained over the temperature range. The density of [N1112OH][NTf2] was measured within temperature range (313.15 to 353.15) K. The (gas + liquid) partition coefficient KL was calculated for all solutes. The values of selectivity and capacity for a few separation problems as hexane/benzene, cyclohexane/benzene, heptane/thiophene at T = 328.15 K were calculated from γ13∞ and compared to literature values for similar ionic liquids, N-methyl-2-pyrrolidinone (NMP), and sulfolane. In comparison with the former measured ammonium-based ILs and the morpholinium-based ILs, the [N1112OH][NTf2] shows average selectivity for the separation of aromatic hydrocarbons, or sulfur compound from aliphatic hydrocarbons, and very high selectivity for pyridine/heptane separation. New data show that [N1112OH][NTf2] IL may be proposed as an alternative solvent for the separation of sulfur or nitrogen compounds from alkanes.

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