Properties and Reactions of Transition Metals and Transition Metal Complexes in Ionic Liquids

Abstract

In this thesis, studies involving ionic liquids (ILs) in the context of IL-transition metal reactions were reported on: the thermochromatic transformation of a cobalt thiocyanate-containing IL, the characterisation of polyhalide ionic liquids, the corrosion of group 11 metals by trihalide ILs, and the comproportionation of copper metal and CuII salts in solution. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) was the main technique used in all of these studies, but other techniques such as mass spectrometry (MS) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) were also used.