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Sulfonium Ionic Liquids

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Over the past decades, ionic liquids have received considerable interest as potential electrolytes for lithium rechargeable batteries due to their excellent stability, non-flammability, and nonvolatility [1,2,3,4]. However, while hundreds of ILs have been developed, most of them suffer from low conductivity caused by their intrinsic high viscosity [5,6,7]. Whereas, in 2005, Wasserscheid and coworkers reported for the first time a series of sulfonium dicyanamides with very low viscosities and high conductivities [8]. Based on this, a variety of functionalized sulfonium ILs were developed as novel low viscous electrolytes [9,10,11,12,13]. On the other hand, apart from their electrochemical applications, sulfonium salts are also being widely used as important synthetic intermediates for the synthesis of massive organic compounds due to the high reactivity of the C-S bond [14]. These sulfonium salts have been designed purposely with specific functional groups for...

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Yue, Ct., Sun, P., Li, Fw. (2020). Sulfonium Ionic Liquids. In: Zhang, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Ionic Liquids. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6739-6_125-1

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