Patent 7544813 was granted and assigned to E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And Company on June, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Compositions of matter useful as ionic liquids of the formula Z+A−, wherein Z+ is a cation selected from the group consisting of pyridinium, pyridazinium, pyrimidinium, pyrazinium, imidazolium, pyrazolium, thiazolium, oxazolium, triazolium, and phosphonium, ammonium cations with specified substituents, and A− is selected from the group consisting of the following three anions wherein R11, R12 and R13 are as specified.R11—CHF—CF2—SO3− Formula IR12—CF2—CF2—SO3− Formula II(R13—CHF—CF2—SO2)2N− Formula III.