Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ghosh Rajarshi

Titel

Discovery of Room Temperature Ionic Liquid

Ist Teil von

• Resonance, 2021-01, Vol.26 (2), p.241-244

Ort / Verlag

Dordrecht: Springer Nature B.V

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Quelle

SpringerLink

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• [EtNH3]+(NG3−) is generally considered as the first reported room temperature ionic liquid which was synthesized and characterized by Paul Walden in 1914. But the present investigation finds that [EtNH3]+(NG3−), a similar kind of ionic salt which is liquid at room temperature, was synthesized by Sir P C Rây three years earlier (in 1911) to Walden. Unfortunately, the latter work had not been paid any attention for more than a century because of unknown reasons. As per literature review, henceforth, Sir P C Rây and his coauthor (J N Rakshit) of that very particular synthesis of the ionic compound which was liquid at room temperature should be regarded as the discoverer of room temperature ionic liquid.