For NADES preparation, chemicals
choline chloride,
1,2-propanediol, DL-malic acid, malonic acid,
D-sorbitol,
urea (all Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham, MA, USA),
citric acid monohydrate,
glycerol,
D(−)-fructose (all Carl Roth, Karlsruhe, Germany),
D(+)-glucose (Merck, Darmstadt, Germany) and methyl
urea (Acros Organics, Geel, Belgium) were used. Methyl
urea had a specified purity of 97%, and all other reagents were at least 98% or higher. In HPLC mobile phases, ultrapure water prepared from deionized water with a
Barnstead MicroPure system (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham, MA, USA),
HPLC-grade acetonitrile (VWR, Radnor, PA, USA) and
formic acid (Honeywell, Charlotte, NC, USA) were used. The solvent for NMR analyses was chloroform-d
1 (VWR). Other solvents used in this study were partly denatured ethanol (96%
v/
v, AustrAlco, Spillern, Austria) methanol (≥99.9%, Carl Roth) and dichloromethane (≥99.5%, Carl Roth). Reference substance spilanthol was isolated in the course of this work with a purity of 97% as determined by NMR.
Alperth F., Feistritzer T., Huber M., Kunert O, & Bucar F. (2024). Natural Deep Eutectic Solvents for the Extraction of Spilanthol from Acmella oleracea (L.) R.K.Jansen. Molecules, 29(3), 612.