“…electrophilic aromatic substitutions (Mouhtady et al, 2003) or cationic polymerizations (Sage et al, 2004). The highest activity is presently displayed in the context of high-energy batteries, particularly lithium-ion batteries, where alkali, zinc or magnesium trifluoromethyl sulfonates are contained in some of the complex (gel) polymer electrolytes (McLin & Angell, 1992;Munshi et al, 1989;Greenbaum, 1987;Semkow & Sammels, 1987;Forsyth et al, 1997;Zheng et al, 1998;Rhodes et al, 1999Rhodes et al, , 2002Ikeda, Mori, Furuhashi, Masuda & Yamamoto, 1999;Kumar & Munichandraiah, 2000a,b;Mitra et al, 2001;Kumar & Sampath, 2003). Our interest in trifluoromethyl sulfonates originates from the various degrees of rotational freedom available to the anion in the solid state.…”