“…The ChCl-based DESs themselves are characterized by considerable microstructural complexity ( Spittle et al, 2022 ), in which different interaction modes among components are possible; in fact, these DESs have been described as an “alphabet soup” of hydrogen bonding (“H-bonding”) interactions ( Ashworth et al, 2016 ). Computational techniques, and classical Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations in particular, have been extensively employed to study the solvation of simple or complex solutes ( Laaksonen et al, 2012 ; Engelbrecht et al, 2018 ), the structural organization in liquids and ILs ( Wang Y.-L. et al, 2020 ; Engelbrecht et al, 2022 ), and to rationalize their experimentally observed properties ( Mariani et al, 2017 ; Demurtas et al, 2021 ; Lengvinaitė et al, 2021 ). These computational methods are also increasingly used to study DESs and DES-containing systems ( Velez and Acevedo, 2022 ), often in combination with experimental methods ( Hansen et al, 2021 ; Spittle et al, 2022 ).…”