Ionic liquids are of interest to chemistry and material sciences because of their designer properties. The protic ionic liquids are excellent proton carriers in fuel cell electrolytes, providing electrolytes of a type thatare simply not available in systems in which water acts as acid or base in the proton transfer process. But, there is a lacuna in our knowledge ofthese compounds. We have no information as to how hydrogen bonding affects their properties. We, therefore, propose to study a series of nitrate-based ionic liquids. Experience with the structurally related alkanes and diaminoalkanes shows that these systems will give excellent, and readily understandable, INS spectra on TOSCA.