The Transition (vs ΔpK<sub>a</sub>) from Triple Ions to Free Cations in Poor Protic Ionic Liquids Made from Weak Acids
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Abstract
In mixtures of amines with carboxylic acids, the limited ionicity at 1:1 stoichiometric mixtures is due to insufficient ionization or ion pairing in low-dielectric environments. Higher conductivities have historically been seen at roughly 4:1 acid/base mixing ratios, where simulations have revealed large (and thus more stable) ions: homoassociated anions (AH)(AH)(A − )(HA)(HA) and cationic triple ions (BH + )(AH)(A − )(HA)(HB + ). Recent work in understanding the Gibbs energies for degree-of-ionization equilibria hints that there may be an onset, for systems with an acid-base pK a difference increasing towards 10, for the formation of free (unpaired) protonate-amine cations BH + . The transition with increasing ΔpK a is explored in this work, to aid in the prediction of ionicity and conductivity of protic ionic liquids.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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