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<title>Nature's tool kit: Designing biocompatible and affordable NADES for sustainable extraction of plant bioactives</title>
<creator>Huerta Sainz, Sergio de la</creator>
<creator>Escobedo Monge, María Antonieta</creator>
<creator>Marcos Villa, Pedro A.</creator>
<creator>Esteban-Ollo, José Antonio</creator>
<creator>Montejo-Gil, Laura</creator>
<creator>Conde-Rioll, María</creator>
<creator>Atilhan, Mert</creator>
<creator>Bol Arreba, Alfredo</creator>
<creator>Aparicio Martínez, Santiago</creator>
<subject>Plant metabolite extraction</subject>
<subject>Natural Deep Eutectic Solvents (NADES)</subject>
<subject>COSMO-based design</subject>
<subject>Sustainable extraction</subject>
<subject>Bioactive compounds</subject>
<description>Conventional extraction of valuable plant compounds often relies on hazardous volatile organic solvents (VOCs), posing environmental and health risks. This study explores a sustainable alternative using Natural Deep Eutectic Solvents (NADES) designed in-silico through the Conductor-like Screening Model for Realistic Solvents methodology (COSMO-RS) for efficient extraction of target plant metabolites. A library of NADES with varying compositions was designed using COSMO-RS to predict their physicochemical properties and affinity for target natural compounds, selecting the most promising candidates in terms of versatility, cost-effectiveness and biocompatibility. To complete the study, a predictive Artificial Intelligence based method (Decision Trees) was developed for reverse design of NADES for target bioactive compounds from energetic and structural molecular descriptors. From a compendium of 58 plant metabolites of interest and 66 natural compounds as NADES components, nearly 3000 solubility in silico tests were conducted and a total of 12 NADES were selected. Three solubility models were created, and a clear dependance of the target compound properties was observed.</description>
<date>2026-02-26</date>
<date>2026-02-26</date>
<date>2025-03</date>
<date>2026-12-25</date>
<type>info:eu-repo/semantics/article</type>
<identifier>2950-3574</identifier>
<identifier>https://hdl.handle.net/10259/11438</identifier>
<identifier>10.1016/j.scowo.2024.100043</identifier>
<language>eng</language>
<relation>Sustainable Chemistry One World. 2025, V. 5, 100043</relation>
<relation>https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scowo.2024.100043</relation>
<rights>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/</rights>
<rights>info:eu-repo/semantics/embargoedAccess</rights>
<rights>Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional</rights>
<publisher>Elsevier</publisher>
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