Ionic liquids (ILs) are well classified as designer solvents based on the ease of tailoring their properties through modifying the chemical structure of the cation and anion. However, while many structure–property relationships have been developed, these generally only identify the most dominant trends. Here, we have used machine learning on existing experimental data to construct robust models to produce meaningful predictions across a broad range of cation and anion chemical structures. Specifically, we used previously collated experimental data for the viscosity and conductivity of protic ILs [T. L. Greaves and C. J. Drummond, Chem. Rev. 115, 11379–11448 (2015)] as the inputs for multiple linear regression and neural network models. These were then used to predict the properties of all 1827 possible cation–anion combinations (excluding the input combinations). These models included the effect of water content of up to 5 wt. %. A selection of ten new protic ILs was then prepared, which validated the usefulness of the models. Overall, this work shows that relatively sparse data can be used productively to predict physicochemical properties of vast arrays of ILs.
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