Patent ID: 7563308

Claim:
A mixture for storage and delivery of a gas comprising: an ionic liquid comprising an anion and a cation; the gas disposed within the ionic liquid comprising at least one selected from the group consisting of a boron-containing gas, an aluminum-containing gas, a phosphorous-containing gas, an arsenic-containing gas, an ether-containing gas, a nitrogen-containing gas, an antimony-containing gas, a bismuth-containing gas, a selenium-containing gas, a gallium-containing gas, a silicon-containing gas, a germanium-containing gas, a tin-containing gas, a tellurium-containing gas, a halogen-containing gas, a halocarbonyl-containing gas, and an oxygen-containing gas wherein at least a portion of the gas is reversibly chemically reacted in a chemical reaction with the ionic liquid to provide a chemically reacted gas provided that the chemical reaction is chosen from a metallic substitution reaction or a metallic oxidative addition reaction; and an unreacted gas selected from an additive gas, an inert gas, an unreacted portion of the chemically reacted gas, and mixtures thereof.