doi:10.1039/d0cc03217dengAbranches, Dinis O.Benfica, JordanaSoares, Bruna P.Leal-Duaso, AlejandroSintra, Tania E.Pires Ezquerra, María ElisabetShimizu, SeishiCoutinho, Joao A. P.Unveiling the mechanism of hydrotropy: evidence for water-mediated aggregation of hydrotropes around the soluteART-2020-118515A recent proposal attributes the origin of hydrotropy to the water-mediated aggregation of hydrotrope molecules around the solute. Experimental evidence for this phenomenon is reported for the first time in this work, using 1H-NMR. A new computational technique to quantify apolarity is introduced and is used to show that apolarity of both solute and hydrotrope is the driving force of hydrotropy.2020http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/13207910.1039/d0cc03217dhttp://zaguan.unizar.es/record/132079oai:zaguan.unizar.es:132079info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/E37-17Rinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MCIU/RTI2018-093431-B-I00Chemical Communications 56, 52 (2020), 7143-7146All rights reservedhttp://www.europeana.eu/rights/rr-f/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess