	US 12,018,000 B2
	Lithium salts of cyano-substituted imidazole for lithium ion batteries
Charlotte Mallet, Montreal (CA); Sylviane Rochon, Saint-Adelphe (CA); Antoine Lafleur-Lambert, Québec (CA); Shinichi Uesaka, Nagaokakyo (JP); and Karim Zaghib, Longueuil (CA)
Assigned to HYDRO-QUÉBEC, Montreal (CA); and MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., Nagaokakyo (JP)
Appl. No. 16/494,435
Filed by HYDRO-QUÉBEC, Montréal (CA); and MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., Nagaokakyo (JP)
PCT Filed Mar. 27, 2018, PCT No. PCT/CA2018/050370 § 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 16, 2019, PCT Pub. No. WO2018/176134, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 4, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/477,161, filed on Mar. 27, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2020/0087262 A1, Mar. 19, 2020
Int. Cl. C07D 233/90 (2006.01); C07C 311/51 (2006.01); C07D 207/448 (2006.01); C07D 233/72 (2006.01); C07D 233/96 (2006.01); H01M 4/60 (2006.01); H01M 4/62 (2006.01); H01M 10/0525 (2010.01); H01M 10/0567 (2010.01); H01M 10/0569 (2010.01)

CPC C07D 233/90 (2013.01) [C07C 311/51 (2013.01); C07D 207/448 (2013.01); C07D 233/72 (2013.01); C07D 233/96 (2013.01); H01M 4/60 (2013.01); H01M 4/62 (2013.01); H01M 10/0525 (2013.01); H01M 10/0567 (2013.01); H01M 10/0569 (2013.01)]

22 Claims

1. A compound as defined in Formula I:

wherein,

R¹and R²are independently selected from H, F, CN, NO₂, and optionally substituted alkyl;

R³is selected from —NHSO₂R⁴, —NHSO₂OR⁴, —SO₂NHSO₂R⁴, —SO₂NHSO₂OR⁴and an optionally substituted non-aromatic heterocycle having 5 or 6 cycle atoms linked through a nitrogen atom of the non-aromatic heterocycle;

R⁴is selected from fluorine, optionally substituted C_1-6alkyl, and optionally substituted C₆aryl; and

(Mⁿ⁺)_1/nis a metal cation, wherein M is an alkali metal or alkaline earth metal and n is 1 or 2;

or a tautomer thereof.