Dear Jitkumar

There are four types of eutectic solvents:

Type I Eutectic (metal salt + organic salt (e.g. ZnCl2 + choline chloride)

Type II Eutectic (metal salt hydrate + organic salt (e.g. CoCl2*6H2O + choline chloride)

Type III Eutectic (organic salt + hydrogen bond donor (e.g. choline chloride + urea)

Type IV Eutectic (metal salt (hydrate) + hydrogen bond donor (e.g. ZnCl2 + urea)

Type I Eutectics also include widely studied & wide range of chlorometallate ionic liquids, such as the ever-popular imidazolium chloroaluminates which are based on mixtures of AlCl3 + 1-Ethyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride. This DES is able to dissolve many metal salts like lithium chloride (solubility 2.5 mol/L) and copper(II) oxide (solubility 0.12 mol/L). Organic compounds such as benzoic acid (solubility 0.82 mol/L) also have great solubility and this even includes cellulose. Compared to ordinary solvents, deep eutectic solvents are cheaper to make, much less toxic and sometimes biodegradable.

Best Regards

Magnetically separable deep eutectic solvents.

Hi Fatema,

What is magnetically separable deep eutectic solvent?

Hi Nilimesh

DESs which have a magnetic counter ion in their structure. Please follow our work in J Mol liq 2019.

Hi Fatemah,

Can you please provide me the link of your paper

Thanks

Ok. I got it Fatemeh. Thanks.