Nonaqueous electrolyte solution and lithium secondary battery using same
View Patent ↗The present invention provides a lithium secondary battery having excellent battery cycle property, electrical capacity, storage characteristic and other battery characteristics for a long period of time, and a nonaqueous electrolytic solution which is usable for the lithium secondary battery. A nonaqueous electrolytic solution in which an electrolyte salt is dissolved in a nonaqueous solvent, comprising (i) a dicarbonyl compound represented by the general formula (I), or (ii) a dicarbonyl compound represented by the general formula (II) and vinylene carbonate and the like in the nonaqueous electrolytic solution. (wherein R 1 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, a phenyl group or the like; and X represents a hydrogen atom, an R 2 group or an OR 2 group. R 2 represents an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, a phenyl group or the like.) (wherein R 1 and X are the same as above; Y and Z represents a hydrogen atom, an R 2 group, an OR 2 group, a COR 2 group or a CH 2 COR 2 group; and n is 1 to 6.).
1. A nonaqueous electrolytic solution for lithium secondary batteries, wherein the nonaqueous electrolytic solution comprises an electrolyte salt dissolved in a nonaqueous solvent, from 0.01 to 10% by weight of a dicarbonyl compound according to formula (II), and at least one member selected from the group consisting of vinylene carbonate, vinylethylene carbonate, fluoroethylene carbonate, 1,3-propane sultone and glycol sulfite in which at least one is present in an amount of from 0.01 to 10% by volume of the nonaqueous solvent:
wherein R 1 represents a hydrogen atom, a C 1 to C 12 alkyl group, a C 3 to C 8 cycloalkyl group, a C 2 to C 12 alkenyl group, a C 2 to C 12 alkynyl group or an unsubstituted or substituted phenyl group; X represents an OR 2 group, wherein R 2 represents a C 3 to C 8 cycloalkyl group, a C 2 to C 12 alkenyl group, a C 2 to C 12 alkynyl group or an unsubstituted or substituted phenyl group; Y and Z each independently represent a hydrogen atom, an R 2 group, an OR 2 group, a COR 2 group or a CH 2 COR 2 group, wherein R 2 is the same as defined above; and n represents an integer from 1 to 6; wherein R 1 and X, R 1 and Y, R 1 and Z, X and Y, X and Z, Y and Z, R 1 , Y and Z, or R 1 , X, Y and Z, may bond to each other to form a ring, with the proviso that when n is 2 or more, Y and Z each bond to a different carbon atom and are independent from each other.
2. The nonaqueous electrolytic solution for lithium secondary batteries according to claim 1 , wherein the dicarbonyl compound according to formula (II) is at least one member selected from a dialdehyde, a keto aldehyde, a diketone and a keto ester.
3. The nonaqueous electrolytic solution for lithium secondary batteries according to claim 1 , wherein the dicarbonyl compound according to formula (II) is at least one member selected from a saturated diketone and a keto ester.
4. A lithium secondary battery comprising a positive electrode, a negative electrode and the nonaqueous electrolytic solution according to claim 1 .
5. The lithium secondary battery according to claim 4 , wherein the positive electrode comprises lithium compound metal oxides comprising at least one selected from the group consisting of cobalt, manganese and nickel as a positive active material.
6. The lithium secondary battery according to claim 4 , wherein the negative electrode comprises carbon materials which can absorb and release lithium as a negative electrode material.
7. The nonaqueous electrolytic solution according to claim 1 , wherein the nonaqueous electrolytic solution comprises an electrolyte salt dissolved in a nonaqueous solvent, from 0.01 to 10% by weight of a dicarbonyl compound according to formula (II), and at least one member selected from vinylene carbonate, vinylethylene carbonate, fluoroethylene carbonate, 1,3-propane sultone and glycol sulfite:
wherein R 1 represents a C 1 to C 12 alkyl group; X represents an OR 2 group wherein R 2 represents a C 2 to C 12 alkynyl group; Y and Z each independently represent a hydrogen atom; and n represents an integer from 1 to 6, and wherein R 1 and X, R 1 and Y, R 1 and Z, X and Y, X and Z, Y and Z, R 1 , Y and Z, or R 1 , X, Y and Z, may bond to each other to form a ring, with the proviso that when n is 2 or more, Y and Z each bond to a different carbon atom and are independent from each other.
8. The nonaqueous electrolytic solution according to claim 7 , wherein the nonaqueous solvent comprises a cyclic carbonate and a linear carbonate.
9. The nonaqueous electrolytic solution according to claim 8 , wherein the linear carbonate comprises at least one asymmetrical carbonate selected from the group consisting of methyl ethyl carbonate, methyl propyl carbonate and methyl butyl carbonate.
10. The nonaqueous electrolytic solution according to claim 7 , wherein the dicarbonyl compound according to formula (II) is at least one of ethynyl levulinate and 2-propynyl levulinate.