Congratulations to our Ph.D. student Marco Rollo for his publication entitled "Preparation and Characterization of Zinc(II)-Based Lewis/Brønsted Acidic Deep Eutectic Solvents”. Four different zinc(II)-based LBDESs have been prepared mixing ZnCl2 and various Brønsted acids: acetic, glycolic, levulinic, and formic acids. Apart from the latter, for which the corresponding DES is not thermally stable, the samples have been characterized in terms of density, viscosity, and conductivity.
Notably, as zinc(II) is a diamagnetic metal, all of them are suitable for NMR spectroscopy, for example, for kinetic and mechanistic studies.
The work is available at the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/28/24/8054
