Cyclodextrins: from solute to solvent.
Tracy El AchkarTarek MoufawadSteven RuellanDavid LandyHélène Greige-GergesSophie FourmentinPublished in: Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) (2020)
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).