Water Binding and Solvent Dynamics in Natural Deep Eutectic Solvents

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Deep Eutectic Solvents (DES) are molecular mixtures similar to ionic liquids, having melting points below room temperature. However instead of being composed of a salt, the mixture contains two molecules with strong interactions that hinder formation of an ordered crystalline network. DES share many of the features of ionic liquids which make them interesting as green solvents while being far less toxic than typical ionic liquids. Recently it has been found that small molecules commonly found in plant cells form natural DES, and it is speculated that these play a role in protecting cells from extreme conditions of cold or drought. Interestingly some of these DES can contain water in a form which currently it is unknown as to why it is inaccessible to enzyme reactions. We will use quasi-elastic neutron scattering to examine the behaviour of this water and relate it to enzyme activity.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.62923065
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/62923065
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Creator Professor Karen Edler; Dr Nikolaos Tsapatsaris; Dr Victoria Garcia Sakai; Dr Thomas Arnold; Dr Andrew Jackson; Dr Adrian Sanchez-Fernandez
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2018
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Biology; Biomaterials; Chemistry; Engineering Sciences; Life Sciences; Materials Science; Materials Science and Engineering; Natural Sciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2015-07-14T09:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2015-07-16T09:00:00Z