Mechanistic insights on ionic liquid and poly(ionic liquid) solutions for CO2 capture and cycloaddition reactions

Funding Information: This research was funded by National Funds through FCT – Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, through projects LA/P/0037/2020 (https://doi.org/10.54499/LA/P/0037/2020), UIDP/50025/2020 (https://doi.org/10.54499/UIDP/50025/2020) and UIDB/50025/2020 (https://doi.org/10.54499/UIDB/50025/2020) of the Associate Laboratory Institute of Nanostructures, Nanomodelling and Nanofabrication-i3N. Through projects: UIDP/00100/2020 (https://doi.org/10.54499/UIDP/00100/2020) and UIDB/00100/2020 (https://doi.org/10.54499/UIDB/00100/2020) of the Centro de Química Estrutural. Institute of Molecular Sciences is an Associate Laboratory funded by FCT through project LA/P/0056/2020 (https://doi.org/10.54499/LA/P/0056/2020). Also, through projects: PTDC/QUI-QFI/31508/2017, PTNMR-ROTEIRO/0031/2013 and PINFRA/22161/2016, co-financed by ERDF through COMPETE 2020, PT2020, POCI and PORL and FCT through PIDDAC (POCI-01–0145-FEDER-007688, POCI-01–0145-FEDER-007265). Generalitat Valenciana is gratefully acknowledged for funding for infrastructure (IDIFEDER/2021/029), GenT (CIDEGENT 2018/036) and Santiago Grisolía Programme (CIGRIS/2021/075). R.V.B. acknowledges FCT for the SFRH/BD/150662/2020 PhD fellowship (https://doi.org/10.54499/SFRH/BD/150662/2020). M.C.C. acknowledges FCT for the researcher contracts 2021.03255.CEECIND (https://doi.org/10.54499/2021.03255.CEECIND/CP1657/CT0014) and CEECIND/08064/2023. M.Z. acknowledges funding from the “la Caixa” Foundation (ID 100010434) for the LCF/BQ/PR24/12050016 fellowship. C.E.S.B. also acknowledges FCT for project 2021.03239.CEECIND (https://doi.org/10.54499/2021.03239.CEECIND/CP1650/CT0003). Publisher Copyright: © 2025