New catanionic surfactants with ionic liquid properties

A systematic study of the physico-chemical properties of a series of new catanionic surfactants with ionic liquid properties is reported. Importantly, by avoiding environmentally unfriendly halide and imidazolium based moieties highly tunable surfactant ionic liquids have been prepared.

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► New catanionic surfactants are synthesized with ionic liquid properties.
► Ionic liquid properties are tunable through careful consideration of molecular architecture.
► Solubility controlled by selection of ion pair.
► Ionic liquids are imidazolium- and halide-free and considered environmentally friendly.
► Aqueous self-aggregation of surfactant ionic liquids investigated through SANS.