Abstract
Abstract Ethaline, the 1:2 molar ratio mixture of ethylene glycol (EG) and choline chloride (ChCl), is generally regarded as a typical type III deep eutectic solvent (DES). However, careful differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) of EG + ChCl mixtures surprisingly revealed that the liquidus lines of the phase diagram apparently follow the predictions for an ideal binary non-electrolyte mixture. Applying broad-band dielectric relaxation spectroscopy to room-temperature solutions of ChCl, and of the related salts choline iodide and chlorocholine chloride, in EG up to saturation, we explored the possible reasons for this conundrum. It appears that in these solutions free ions are rather scarce. Instead, contact ion pairs and larger aggregates predominate.
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