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Rational design, preparation and characterization of a ternary non-ionic room-temperature deep eutectic solvent derived from urea, acetamide, and sorbitol

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Deep eutectic solvents (DESs) have emerged as a new kind of solvent and an excellent alternative to ionic liquids, thanks to its simplicity in preparing and availability of a large number of potential constituents to tune the properties. However, most of the reported DESs are ionic, and to the best of our knowledge, only a few non-ionic DESs are available, which are liquid at room temperature.

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We rationally design and report a new ternary non-ionic DES comprising of acetamide, urea, and sorbitol, which is liquid at room temperature. We also report some of the important physical properties like refractive index (nD), sound velocity (u), density (ρ), and dynamic viscosity (η).

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NS and ND acknowledge Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Government of India, respectively, for awarding fellowships. We thank Mr. Abhineet Verma and Dr. Satyen Saha of the Department of Chemistry, Banaras Hindu University for viscosity measurements. PS thanks Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur for infrastructure and funding.

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    Navin Subba, Pushpkant Sahu, Nilimesh Das & Pratik Sen

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Subba, N., Sahu, P., Das, N. et al. Rational design, preparation and characterization of a ternary non-ionic room-temperature deep eutectic solvent derived from urea, acetamide, and sorbitol. J Chem Sci 133, 25 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12039-020-01866-2

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