Electrolytic solution for non-aqueous secondary battery, and non-aqueous secondary battery

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9735448-B2
Application number	US-201514749767-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 25, 2015
Priority date	Jan 28, 2013
Publication date	Aug 15, 2017
Grant date	Aug 15, 2017

Abstract

The present invention provides an electrolytic solution for a non-aqueous secondary battery, the electrolytic solution including: an organic metal compound; an electrolyte; and an organic solvent, in which the organic metal compound includes a central metal and a multidentate ligand, and the ligand includes an oxygen atom bonded to the central metal, and a nitrogen atom or a sulfur atom bonded to the central metal.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An electrolytic solution for a non-aqueous secondary battery comprising:
an organic metal compound;
an electrolyte; and
an organic solvent,
wherein the organic metal compound includes a central metal and a multidentate ligand,
a metal element in the central metal is selected from the group consisting of Group 4 transition elements, Group 5 transition elements, Group 6 transition elements, Group 7 transition elements, Group 8 transition elements, Group 11 transition elements, Group 12 transition elements, and rare earth metal elements, and
the multidentate ligand includes an oxygen atom bonded to the central metal, and a nitrogen atom or a sulfur atom bonded to the central metal.

2. The electrolytic solution for a non-aqueous secondary battery according to claim 1 ,
wherein the organic metal compound is a compound represented by the following formula (1),

where in the formula (1), M represents the central metal, with a metal element in the central metal being selected from the group consisting of Group 4 transition elements, Group 5 transition elements, Group 6 transition elements, Group 7 transition elements, Group 8 transition elements, Group 11 transition elements, Group 12 transition elements and rare earth metal elements; A 1 represents an aromatic ring or an aromatic heterocyclic ring; R 1 represents an alkyl group, an aryl group, a heteroaryl group, or an alkenyl group; when plural R 1 's are present, R 1 's may be bonded or condensed to each other or the plural R 1 's may form a ring; X represents CR 2 or a nitrogen atom; R 2 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, a hydroxyl group, an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group, a thiol group, an alkylthio group, or an arylthio group; R 1 and R 2 may be bonded or condensed to each other to form a ring; R 3 represents a substituent; Y represents a monodentate ligand; k represents an integer of 1 to 4; l represents an integer of 0 to 3; and m represents an integer of 0 to 2.

3. The electrolytic solution for a non-aqueous secondary battery according to claim 2 ,
wherein the formula (1) represents any one of the following formulae (2) to (5),

where M, A 1 , R 3 , Y, k, l, and m have the same definitions as those in the formula (1), respectively; A 2 has the same definition as A 1 in the formula (1); B 1 and B 2 represent a nitrogen-containing aromatic heterocyclic ring; R 4 to R 6 have the same definition as R 3 in the formula (1); R 4 and R 6 may be bonded or condensed to each other to form a ring with a portion of B 1 and B 2 ; R 7 and R 8 each independently has the same definition as R 2 in the formula (1); L represents an alkylene group, an arylene group, a heteroarylene group, or an alkenylene group; and n, o, and p each independently represents an integer of 0 to 3.

4. The electrolytic solution for a non-aqueous secondary battery according to claim 3 ,
wherein the organic metal compound is a compound represented by the following formula (2-1), (2-2), (3-1), (3-2), (4-1), (4-2), (5-1), or (5-2),

where M, B 1 , B 2 , R 3 to R 8 , L, Y, k, l, m, n, o, and p have the same definitions as those in the formulae (2) to (5), respectively; R 9 and R 10 each independently represents an alkyl group, an aryl group, or a heteroaryl group; and R 31 and R 51 each independently represents the substituent represented by R 3 in the formula (1) or a hydrogen atom.

5. The electrolytic solution for a non-aqueous secondary battery according to claim 4 ,
wherein the organic metal compound is a compound represented by the formula (4-1) or (4-2).

6. The electrolytic solution for a non-aqueous secondary battery according to claim 3 ,
wherein L represents a cycloalkylene group or an arylene group.

7. The electrolytic solution for a non-aqueous secondary battery according to claim 1 ,
wherein the central metal is a transition element in Group 4 to Group 8 or a rare earth metal element.

8. The electrolytic solution for a non-aqueous secondary battery according to claim 1 ,
wherein the central metal is V, Cr, Ti, Zr, or Hf.

9. The electrolytic solution for a non-aqueous secondary battery according to claim 1 ,
wherein the content of the organic metal compound is 0.0001 mol/L to 0.5 mol/L with respect to a total amount of the electrolytic solution.

10. The electrolytic solution for a non-aqueous secondary battery according to claim 1 , further comprising:
at least one of an aromatic compound, a halogen-containing compound, a phosphorus-containing compound, a sulfur-containing compound, a silicon-containing compound, a nitrile compound, and a polymerizable compound.

11. A non-aqueous secondary battery comprising:
a positive electrode;
a negative electrode; and
the electrolytic solution according to claim 1 .

12. The non-aqueous secondary battery according to claim 11 ,
wherein the positive electrode contains an active material,
the active material contains a transition metal oxide represented by any one of the following formulae (MA) to (MC):
Li a M 1 O b   (MA);

Li c M 2 2 O d   (MB); and

Li e M 3 (PO 4 ) f   (MC),

where Mand M 2 each independently represents one or more elements selected from Co, Ni, Fe, Mn, Cu, and V; M 3 each independently represents one or more elements selected from V, Ti, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, and Cu; a represents 0.02 to 1.2; b represents 1 to 3; c represents 0.02 to 2; d represents 3 to 5; e represents 0 to 2; and f represents 1 to 5.

13. The non-aqueous secondary battery according to claim 11 ,
wherein the positive electrode contains an active material,
the active material is lithium cobalt oxide, lithium manganese oxide, lithium nickel oxide, lithium nickel manganese cobalt oxide, lithium manganese nickel oxide, lithium nickel cobalt aluminum oxide, or lithium vanadium phosphate.

14. The non-aqueous secondary battery according to claim 11 ,
having 4.25 V to 5.0 V vs. Li/Li + of a charging potential during normal charging.

Assignees

• Fujifilm Corp

Inventors

• Ishiji Yohei

Classifications

• H01M50/491

  Porosity · CPC title

• H01M50/489

  Separators, membranes, diaphragms or spacing elements inside the cells, characterised by their physical properties, e.g. swelling degree, hydrophilicity or shut down properties · CPC title

• Y02E60/10

  Energy storage using batteries · CPC title

• H01M10/0568

  characterised by the solutes · CPC title

• H01M4/525

  of mixed oxides or hydroxides containing iron, cobalt or nickel for inserting or intercalating light metals, e.g. LiNiO2, LiCoO2 or LiCoOxFy · CPC title