Cyclodextrins: from solute to solvent

Tracy El Achkar (1, 2) , Tarek Moufawad (1, 2) , Steven Ruellan (1, 2) , David Landy (1, 2) , Hélène Greige-Gerges , Sophie Fourmentin (1, 2)

1 UCEIV - Unité de Chimie Environnementale et Interactions sur le Vivant
2 SFR Condorcet

A supramolecular solvent based on cyclodextrin (CD) is presented here for the first time. Indeed, a low melting mixture was obtained by mixing levulinic acid and a CD derivative, which retained its inclusion ability in the resulting solvent. This new system gives rise to a new family of solvents that could be called SUPRADES (supramolecular deep eutectic solvents).

Domaines: Chimie

Tracy El Achkar, Tarek Moufawad, Steven Ruellan, David Landy, Hélène Greige-Gerges, et al.. Cyclodextrins: from solute to solvent. Chemical Communications, 2020, 56 (23), pp.3385-3388. ⟨10.1039/D0CC00460J⟩. ⟨hal-02955147⟩