A Three-Minute Synthesis and Purification of Ibuprofen: Pushing the Limits of Continuous-Flow Processing
Contributor(s):: Snead, David R., Jamison, Timothy F.
In a total residence time of three minutes, ibuprofen was assembled from its elementary building blocks with an average yield of above 90 % for each step. A scale-up of this five-stage process (3 bond-forming steps, one work-up, and one in-line liquid–liquid separation) provided ibuprofen at a...