Non-ideal behaviour of imidazolium based room temperature ionic liquids in ethylene glycol at T = (298.15 to 318.15) K

Non-ideal behaviour of the room temperature ionic liquids (RTILs), 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate [bmim][BF4]; 1-octyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate [omim][BF4] and 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium octylsulfate [bmim][C8OSO3] in ethylene glycol [HOCH2CH2OH] (EG) have been investigated over the whole composition range at T = (298.15 to 318.15) K. For the purpose, volumetric properties such as excess molar volumes, VmE, apparent molar volumes, Vϕ,iVϕ,i, partial molar volumes, V¯m,i, excess partial molar volumes, V¯m,iE, and their limiting values at infinite dilution, Vϕ,i∞, V¯m,i∞, and V¯m,iE,∞ respectively have been calculated from the experimental density measurements. The VmE results have been analyzed using the Prigogine–Flory–Patterson (PFP) theory. PFP theory has satisfactorily explained the volumetric behaviour of the binary mixtures. Refractive index measurements at 298.15 K have been used to calculate the deviations in refractive indices ΔϕnΔϕn and the deviation of molar refraction ΔxR from their respective ideal values. Refractive index results have been correlated with volumetric results, and have been interpreted in terms of molecular interactions. Excess properties are fitted to the Redlich–Kister polynomial equation to obtain the binary coefficients and the standard errors.