The impact of the counterion in the performance of ionic hydrotropes.
Dinis O AbranchesJordana BenficaBruna P SoaresAna M FerreiraTânia E SintraSeishi ShimizuJoão Araújo Pereira CoutinhoPublished in: Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) (2021)
The efficiency of an ionic hydrotrope is shown to increase with the hydrophobicity of its counterion, challenging the common view that ionic hydrotropes should possess a small, densely charged counterion such as sodium or chloride.
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