Recent Advances in Eco-Friendly Deep Eutectic Solvents Research: Synthesis, Properties and Applications
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Green Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2022) | Viewed by 7216
Special Issue Editors
Interests: solution thermodynamics; ionic liquids; eutectic solvents; liquid-liquid extraction; critical raw materials; natural compounds; biomass valorization
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Deep eutectic solvents are currently the subject of intensive research throughout the chemistry and bioengineering community, due to very promising environmentally friendly properties. Based on their mostly natural or non-toxic compounds, and exhibiting exceptional physical chemical properties, they are being applied as promising solvents for a large range of applications, ranging from solubilization of natural compounds, electrochemistry, organic chemistry, to their integration to new chemical and bioengineering processes.
In this context, the Guest Editors propose a Special Issue on deep eutectic solvents dedicated to collecting the most recent advances in this field. Topics of interest include all innovative aspects of the properties and applications of deep eutectic solvents. Physical chemical properties of new systems, intermolecular solvent–solvent or solute–solvent interactions fall within the scope of this issue. Alternative or breakthrough applications of these solvents to existing or new processes such as organic or inorganic synthesis, electrochemistry, extraction and purification of ionic or neutral compounds and bioengineering processes are of significant importance. The combination of both properties and applications of these solvents will shed some inspiring light on the current understanding of these solvents and help gaining insights into the underlying mechanisms in play in such media.
Dr. Nicolas Papaiconomou
Dr. Ludovic Paquin
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Deep eutectic solvents
- Natural compounds
- Solvent properties
- Sustainable development
- Organic chemistry
- Inorganic chemistry
- Electrochemistry
- Extraction
- Bioengineering processes
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