(35)Cl solid-state NMR of halide ionic liquids at ultrahigh fields.

This Letter describes recent work investigating the solid-state NMR spectra of (35)Cl nuclei in an assortment of ionic liquids under static and MAS conditions at field strengths of 9.4 and 21.1 T. At high field it was possible to resolve and extract information from multiple unique crystallographic sites and to resolve otherwise complex spectra that were analyzed to extract information regarding the electric field gradient (EFG) and chemical shift tensors, including their relative orientation. The NMR parameters were found to be typical of organic salts in general.