“…Since Schiff bases are generally sensitive towards hydrolysis, numerous research has indicated that this process follows first order kinetics, is accelerated in acidic medium [66,67] and considered very slow in the neutral pH range due to negligible protonation of imine, where the addition of water to the neutral imine is suggested to be the rate-limiting step [68,69]. In this respect, our studies revealed that DDUTS solution in ethanol-water (75:25, v/v) remains stable for a period of 4 days in the dark, after obtaining non-significant variations in absorbance and fluorescence intensities, shapes of the absorption and emission spectra, with no appearance of new bands.…”