%0 Journal Article %A Dagger, Tim %A Henschel, Jonas %A Rezaei Rad, Babak %A Lürenbaum, Constantin %A Schappacher, Falko M. %A Winter, Martin %A Nowak, Sascha %T Investigating the lithium ion battery electrolyte additive tris (2,2,2-trifluoroethyl) phosphite by gas chromatography with a flame ionization detector (GC-FID) %J RSC Advances %V 7 %N 84 %@ 2046-2069 %C London %I RSC Publishing %M FZJ-2018-04808 %P 53048 - 53055 %D 2017 %X The quantification of lithium ion battery electrolyte additives provides challenges in terms of methods and instrumentation. In this work, the detectability of the flame retardant additive tris(2,2,2-trifluoroethyl) phosphite (TTFPi) differs unusually when added to a standard electrolyte (1 M LiPF6 in ethylene carbonate (EC)[thin space (1/6-em)]:[thin space (1/6-em)]dimethyl carbonate (DMC) 1[thin space (1/6-em)]:[thin space (1/6-em)]1 wt%) using gas chromatography with a flame ionization detector (GC-FID). In this work, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), ion trap time of flight mass spectrometry (IT-TOF™ MS) and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) are used to investigate a pure TTFPi solution and a standard battery electrolyte with TTFPi as an additive with regard to parasitic TTFPi consuming reactions and different TTFPi concentrations, respectively. NMR and IT-TOF™ MS measurements confirm the chemical stability of the TTFPi/standard electrolyte mixture and concentration dependent GC-MS and GC-FID experiments indicate a premature FID saturation limit for TTFPi in presence of standard electrolyte. The findings explain the counterintuitive absence of TTFPi for higher concentrations and provide important information for future sample preparation. %F PUB:(DE-HGF)16 %9 Journal Article %U <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000416049900002 %R 10.1039/C7RA09476K %U https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/851106