On the design of a versatile ionic liquid, AOBH-DEHP, which can be used as a new molecular probe to investigate supramolecular assemblies

It is shown that AOBH-DEHP has all the advantages of its chromophore, AOBH+ but, the presence of the hydrophobic anion, DEHP−, gives to the dye, unique solubility in solvents of very different polarities. As such and, in contrast to AOBH+ chloride salts, AOBH-DEHP can be used to determine different properties, such as micropolarity, restricted motion environment, critical micellar concentration in different RMs media.