High pressure study of molecular dynamics of protic ionic liquid lidocaine hydrochloride

In this paper, we investigate the effect of pressure on the molecular dynamics of protic ionic liquid lidocaine hydrochloride, a commonly used pharmaceutical, by means of dielectric spectroscopy and pressure-temperature-volume methods. We observed that near Tg the pressure dependence of conductivity relaxation times reveals a peculiar behavior, which can be treated as a manifestation of decoupling between ion migration and structural relaxation times. Moreover, we discuss the validity of thermodynamic scaling in lidocaine HCl. We also employed the temperature-volume Avramov model to determine the value of pressure coefficient of glass transition temperature, dTg/dP|P = 0.1. Finally, we investigate the role of thermal and density fluctuations in controlling of molecular dynamics of the examined compound.