Yes acetone can work well. But it eats rubber tires like sun melts an ice cube. If you go that route you should certainly pull the tires off and work only with the bare wheels.

It's also able to leech through your skin and enter your bloodstream very easily not to mention being extremely harsh on your skin. And the fumes are also harmful. So if you're using it work outdoors and wear solvent resistant gloves like the blue Nitrile gloves. It is VERY nasty stuff just like any of the seriously aromatic solvents.

While a lot of rims are anodized not that many are anodized on the actual braking surface. Unless you bought the hard anodized "ceramic" types. If you did then yeah, sanding, steel wool or Scotchbrite pads should be avoided. But for the machined silver braking surface rims it's not hard to use the abrasive cleaning methods and control them so that they don't touch the painted or anodozed parts.