Chemical reactions and many of the procedures of separation and purification employed in industry, research or chemistry teaching utilize solvents massively. In the last decades, with the birth of Green Chemistry, concerns about the employment of solvents and the effects on human health, as well as its environmental impacts and its dependence on non-renewable raw materials for manufacturing most of them, has drawn the attention of the scientific community. In this work, we review the concept of green solvent and the properties and characteristics to be considered green. Additionally, we discuss the different possible routes to prepare many solvents from biomass, as an alternative way to those methods currently applied in the petrochemical industry.

工业，研究或化学教学中使用的化学反应和许多分离和纯化程序大量使用溶剂。在过去的几十年中，随着绿色化学的诞生，人们对溶剂的使用及其对人体健康的影响，其对环境的影响以及对制造大多数溶剂的不可再生原材料的依赖引起了人们的关注。科学界。在这项工作中，我们回顾了绿色溶剂的概念以及被认为是绿色的特性和特征。此外，我们讨论了从生物质中制备许多溶剂的不同可能途径，作为目前在石化工业中使用的那些方法的替代方法。