Resumen: This microreview tries to answer the question: Are Deep Eutectic Solvents a real alternative to Ionic Liquids in metal-catalysed reactions? We have gathered the outstanding results of the use of DES in metal-catalysed processes and we have compared them to the ones with ILs. The huge possibilities of combinations of the components of the DES provide a vast number of different solvents with tunable properties. These DES have been successfully applied to different reactions such as, couplings or hydrogenations, among others. But additional work is still be necessary to explore the use of DES in other reactions and to go in depth in the study of the influence of the nature of the DES. Finally, we also present the rise in a new family of solvents, bio-based ionic liquids, complementary to the use of DES in order to fully substitute traditional ILs. Idioma: Inglés DOI: 10.1016/j.cogsc.2022.100610 Año: 2022 Publicado en: Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry 35 (2022), 100610 [9 pp.] ISSN: 2452-2236 Factor impacto JCR: 9.3 (2022) Categ. JCR: GREEN & SUSTAINABLE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY rank: 11 / 46 = 0.239 (2022) - Q1 - T1 Categ. JCR: CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY rank: 26 / 178 = 0.146 (2022) - Q1 - T1 Factor impacto CITESCORE: 13.2 - Environmental Science (Q1) - Chemistry (Q1) - Chemical Engineering (Q1)