Cyclodextrins: from solute to solvent

Chem Commun (Camb). 2020 Mar 19;56(23):3385-3388. doi: 10.1039/d0cc00460j.

Abstract

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).