Role of Solvent Rearrangement on Mg2+ Solvation Structures in Dimethoxyethane Solutions using Multimodal NMR Analysis
- 16 July 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
- Vol. 11 (15), 6443-6449
- https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c01447
Abstract
One of the main impediments faced for predicting important emergent properties of a multivalent electrolyte (such as conductivity and electrochemical stability) is the lack of quantitative analysis of ion-ion and ion-solvent interactions, which manifest in solvation structures and dynamics. In particular, the role of ion-solvent interactions is still unclear in cases where the strong electric field from multivalent cations can influence intramolecular rotations and conformal structural evolution (i.e. solvent rearrangement process) of lower permittivity organic solvent molecules on solvation structure. Using quantitative 1H, 19F, 17O, and 25Mg NMR together with 19F nuclear spin relaxation and diffusion measurments, we find an unusual correlation between ion concentration and solvation structure of Mg(TFSI)2 salt in dimethoxyethane (DME) solution. The domiant solvation structure evolves from contact ion pairs (i.e. [Mg(TFSI)(DME)1-2]+) to fully solvated clusters (i.e. [Mg(DME)3]2+) as salt concentration increases or as temperature decreases. This transition is coupled to a phase separation, which we study here between 0.06 M and 0.36 M. Subsequent analysis is based on an explanation of the solvent rearrangement process and the competition between solvent molecules and TFSI anions for cation coordination.Funding Information
- Basic Energy Sciences
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