1-Butyl-3-ethyl-1H-benzimidazol-3-ium tetrafluoroborate

Abstract

In the title salt, C13H19N2 +·BF4 −, an ionic liquid, the butyl and ethyl substituents bonded to the N atoms of the imidazole ring [r.m.s. deviation = 0.019 (1) Å] adopt equatorial positions. The crystal structure exhibits slipped π–π inter­actions between the imidazole and benzene rings of neighbouring mol­ecules [centroid–centroid distance = 3.529 (2) Å]. In the tetra­fluoro­borate anion, the B and F atoms are disordered over two sets of sites with site-occupancy factors of 0.813 (7) and 0.187 (7).