“…The UV-vis spectra were evaluated by Multivariate Curve Resolution-Alternating Least Squares regression (MCR-ALS) chemometric approach, whose goal is to decompose the collected data into their pure chemical components, by providing their spectra and their concentration profiles (Tauler, 1995;de Juan et al, 2000;Jaumot et al, 2005Jaumot et al, , 2015Ruckebusch and Blanchet, 2013). The MCR-ALS approach has been deeply used in several applications such as, for instance, voltammetry (Serrano et al, 2020), UV-vis (Veselinović et al, 2012;Ghigo et al, 2018), IR (Shariati-Rad and Hasani, 2009), Raman (Andrew and Hancewicz, 1998;Lyndgaard et al, 2013), hyperspectral imaging (Piqueras et al, 2011;Laborde et al, 2021), NMR (Huo et al, 2004), EPR (Abou Fadel et al, 2014;Berto et al, 2019), GC-MS (Lebanov et al, 2020), UHPLC (Wehrens, 2011), etc. It is particularly helpful in case of measurements following Lambert-Beer's law, i.e., in case the collected overall spectra consist in a linear combination of the spectra of their pure components.…”