Table 5.

Physicochemical properties of selected methylimidazolium ionic liquids sorted by the cation [39].

Cation	Anion	Formula	m.w g/mol	m.t. °C	Visc cP 25 °C	Visc cP 50 °C
MIM	Cl	C4H7ClN2	118.6	74	Solid	Solid
	NO3	C4H7N3O3	145.1	71	Solid	Solid
MMIM	Cl	C5H9ClN2	132.6	126	Solid	Solid
EMIM	Cl	C6H11ClN2	146.6	89	Solid	Solid
	SCN	C7H11N3S	169.3	−6	29	12
	Acetate NO3	C8H14N2O2 C6H11N3O3	170.2 173.2	−2 39	144 Solid	39
	N(CN)2Br	C8H11N5 C6H11BrN2	177.2 191.1	−18 75	16 Solid	9 Solid
	BF4	C6H11BF4N2	198	13	35	18
	Alaninate	C9H17N3O2	199.2	12	260	62
	C(CN)3CH3SO3	C10H11N5 C7H14N2O3S	201.2 206.3	−9 25	15 167	7 47
	CF3SO3HSO4	C7H11F3N2O3S C6H12N2O4S	260.2 208.2	−14 19	43 1600	20 360
	CH3SO4	C7H14N2O4S	222.3	−40	79	30
	C2SO4	C8H16N2O4S	236.3	−37	98	35
	C4SO4	C10H20N2O4S	264.3	−15	181	56
	C6SO4C8SO4	C12H24N2O4S C14H28N2O4S	292.4 320.5	−6 10	320 580	86,140
	I	C6H11IN2	238.1	78	Solid	Solid
	PF6	C6H11F6N2P	256.1	60	Solid	Solid
	AlCl4	C6H11AlCl4N2	280	6.5
	TolSO3	C13H18N2O3S	282.4	50	Solid	240
	AsF6	C6H11AsF6N2	300.1	53	Solid	Solid
	NTf2	C8H11F6N3O4S2	391.3	−17	33	16
	N(SO2C2F5)2	C10H11F10N3O4S2	491.3	−1
EMMIM	Br	C7H13BrN2	205.1	141	Solid	Solid
	NTf2	C9H13F6N3O4S2	405.3	25	Solid
	N(SO2C2F5)2	C11H13F10N3O4S2	505.3	25	Solid
PMIM	Cl	C7H13ClN2	160.6	62	Solid	Solid
	Br	C7H13BrN2	205.1	28	Solid
	BF4I	C7H13BF4N2 C7H13IN2	212 252.1	−17 17	74	27
	PF6	C7H13F6N2P	270.2	38	Solid
	NTf2	C9H13F6N3O4S2	405.3	15	46	19
BMIM	Cl	C8H15ClN2	174.5	41	Solid	150
	SCN	C9H15N3S	197.3	−6	51	19
	Acetate	C10H18N2O2	198.3	−1	430	67
	N(CN)2Br	C10H15N5 C8H15BrN2	205.3 219.1	−5 75	42 Solid	19 Solid
	BF4	C8H15BF4N2	226	−82	108	36
	C(CN)3HSO4	C12H15N5 C8H16N2O4S	229.3 236.3	−20 28	34 Solid	12
	ClO4	C8H15ClN2O4	238.7	8	180	57
	CH3SO4	C9H18N2O4S C10H15F3N2O2	250.3 252.2	−4 0	94 77	32 25
	Trifluoroacetate
	PF6	C8H15F6N2P	284.2	11	270	74
	CF3SO3	C9H15F3N2O3S	288.3	14	80	31
	Cyclohexyl sulfamate	C14H27N3O3S	317.5	72.5	Solid	Solid
	FeCl4 C8SO4	C8H15Cl4FeN2 C16H32N2O4S	337 348.5	−12 24	41,870	18 152
	NTf2	C10H15F6N3O4S2	419.4	−5	42	19
Isobutylmim MMMMmim	NTf2 NTf2	C10H15F6N3O4S2 C10H15F6N3O4S2	419.4 419.4	−16 118	Solid	Solid
BMIM	Cl	C9H17ClN2	188.7	93	Solid	Solid
	BF4	C9H17BF4N2	240.1	32	Solid	31
	PF6	C9H17F6N2P	298.2	38	Solid
	NTf2	C11H17F6N3O4S2	433.4	−6	350	34
Allylmim Benzmim	N(CN)2Cl	C9H11N5 C11H13ClN2	189.2 208.7	−20 14	20 3725	10 417
	CH3SO4	C12H16N2O4S	284.3	18	4500	327
	PF6	C11H13F6N2P	318.2	130	Solid	Solid
C5mim	PF6	C9H17F6N2P	298.2	16	380	97
	NTf2	C11H17F6N3O4S2	433.4	−9	58	22
HMIM	N(CN)2	C12H19N5	233.3	1	50	20
	BF4I	C10H19BF4N2 C10H19IN2	254.1 294.2	−82 30	200 Solid	58 246
	PF6 CF3SO3	C10H19F6N2P C11H19F3N2O3S	312.2 316.3	−61 25	480 Solid	120 47
	NTf2	C12H19F6N3O4S2	447.4	−6	70	27