@article{31658,
  author = {Kee Sung Han and Nav Nidhi Rajput and M Vijayakumar and Xiaoliang Wei and Wei Wang and Jianzhi Hu and Kristin A Persson and Karl T Mueller},
  title = {Preferential Solvation of an Asymmetric Redox Molecule},
  abstract = {<p><span>The fundamental correlations between solubility and solvation structure for the electrolyte system comprising\&nbsp;</span><em>N</em><span>-(ferrocenylmethyl)-</span><em>N</em><span>,</span><em>N</em><span>-dimethyl-</span><em>N</em><span>-ethylammonium bistrifluoromethylsulfonimide (Fc1N112-TFSI) dissolved in a ternary carbonate solvent mixture is analyzed using combined NMR relaxation and computational methods. Probing the evolution of the solvent{\textendash}solvent, ion{\textendash}solvent and ion{\textendash}ion interactions with an increase in solute concentration provides a molecular level understanding of the solubility limit of the Fc1N112-TFSI system. An increase in solute concentration leads to pronounced Fc1N112-TFSI contact-ion pair formation by diminishing solvent{\textendash}solvent and ion{\textendash}solvent type interactions. At the solubility limit, the precipitation of solute is initiated through agglomeration of contact-ion pairs due to overlapping solvation shells.</span></p>},
  year = {2016},
  booktitle = {The Journal of Physical Chemistry C},
  journal = {The Journal of Physical Chemistry C},
  series = {The Journal of Physical Chemistry C},
  volume = {120},
  pages = {27834 - 27839},
  month = {11/2016},
  issn = {1932-7447},
  doi = {10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b09114},
  language = {eng},
}