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The efficiency of mixtures of ionic liquids (ILs) and molecular solvents in cellulose dissolution and derivatization depends on the structures of both components. We investigated the ILs 1-(1-butyl)-3-methylimidazolium acetate (CMeImAc) and 1-(2-methoxyethyl)-3-methylimidazolium acetate (COMeImAc) and their solutions in dimethyl sulfoxide, DMSO, to assess the effect of presence of an ether linkage in the IL side-chain. Surprisingly, CMeImAc-DMSO was more efficient than COMeImAc-DMSO for the dissolution and acylation of cellulose. We investigated both solvents using rheology, NMR spectroscopy, and solvatochromism. Mixtures of COMeImAc-DMSO are more viscous, less basic, and form weaker hydrogen bonds with cellobiose than CMeImAc-DMSO. We attribute the lower efficiency of COMeImAc to "deactivation" of the ether oxygen and C2H of the imidazolium ring due to intramolecular hydrogen bonding. Using the corresponding ILs with C2CH instead of C2H, namely, 1-butyl-2,3-dimethylimidazolium acetate (CMeImAc) and 1-(2-methoxyethyl)-2,3-dimethylimidazolium acetate (COMeImAc) increased the concentration of dissolved cellulose; without noticeable effect on biopolymer reactivity.
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